Monday, July 7

08:45     Registration (Venue: Grand Meeting Room, First Floor, Building 2)

09:00-10:30 Session I: China’s Foreign Policy under New Leadership: Continuity & Development (I)

Chair:

Prof. Yang Jiemian

Discussants: (10 minutes each)

Prof. CHEN Dongxiao

Dr. Douglas PAAL

Prof. SU Changhe

Guiding Questions:

• How to decode China’s foreign policy under new leadership? How will internal and external circumstances shape the trajectory of China’s foreign policy in the future?


• What are the major features of China’s new diplomacy? What have changed and what not changed?


• What are the regional and global implications of a more proactive diplomacy in China?

General Discussion

11:00-12:00 Session II: China’s Foreign Policy under New Leadership: Continuity & Development (II)

Chair:  

Prof. Yang Jiemian    

Discussants: (10 minutes each)

Prof. CUI Liru

Prof. Volker PERTHES

Prof. XU Jian

Guiding Questions:

• How to understand the “New Model of Major Country Relations” initiated by China’s new leadership? How would this new initiative influence China’s relations with other big powers, including the U.S., Russia and EU, etc?


• What are new developments of China’s neighborhood diplomacy? How to translate those new principles governing China’s neighborhood diplomacy such as amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness into more actions on the ground? What are the opportunities and obstacles ahead?


• What lessons can be summarized from China’s new diplomacy? What advices do you have for the future?

General Discussion

Chair:

Prof. Chen Dongxiao

Keynote Speech on the Development of Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone

Guest Speaker:

Prof. ZHOU Hanmin

Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People's Political

Consultative Conference

14:30-15:30 Session III: Building of Regional Order: Opportunity and Challenges (I)

Chair:

Prof. Chen Dongxiao

Discussants : (10 minutes each)

H.E. Mr. Jorge E. TAIANA

Prof. XU Mingqi

Mr. Jusuf WANANDI

Admiral YANG Yi

Guiding Questions:

• What are the mega-trends of and driving force behind regional economic integrations in the Asia-Pacific? How to tap the potentials to fresh up the regional economic cooperation?

• What is the best way to manage competition and promote cooperation between and among different regional economic initiatives, such as TPP, RCEP in the Asia-Pacific? What does a pan-regional economic arrangement look like in the Asia-Pacific? What are the regional and global implications on China’s initiative of “Silk Road Economic Belt & Maritime Silk Road in the 21^st Century”?

General Discussion

16:00-17:00 Session IV: Building of Regional Order: Opportunity and Challenges (II)

Chair:

Prof. Chen Dongxiao

Speakers:

Prof. WANG Jian

Prof. GUO Shuyong

Prof. ZHAO Gancheng

Dr. Bates GILL

Guiding Questions:

• Given the complex security situation in the Asia-Pacific, how to translate the Asia security concept, including common security, comprehensive security, cooperative security and sustainable security summarized by President Xi Jinpin at 2014 CICA summit,, into more ground actions in this region?


• What kind of confidence and trust-building measures should be taken to manage the security dilemma and maritime disputes?  How to defuse the tensions on the Korean Peninsula?


• What will be the vision for security cooperation in the region? How can the bilateral alliances that led by the United States work within a multilateral security architecture that accommodates the interests of most of regional countries, including China?

General Discussion

17:00-17:30 Closing Remark

Prof. YANG Jiemian



                          List of Participants (in Alphabet Order)

CHEN, Dongxiao, Prof

President

Shanghai Institutes for International Studies

China

CUI, Liru, Prof

Senior Advisor

China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations

China

GILL, Bates, Dr

CEO

US Studies Centre

University of Sydney

Australia

GUO, Shuyong, Prof

Dean

School of International Relations and Public Affairs,

Shanghai International Studies University

China

PAAL, Douglas, Dr

Vice President for Studies

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

USA

PERTHES,Volker, Prof

Chairman and Director

German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Germany

SU, Changhe, Prof

Vice Dean,

School of International Relations and Public Affairs

Fudan University

China

TAIANA, Jorge E, H.E. Mr

Former Foreign Minister

Argentina

WANANDI, Jusuf, Mr

Vice Chairman of Board of Trustees

Center for Strategic a International Studies

Indonesia

WANG, Jian, Prof

Vice Director

Institute of History

Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

China

XU, Jian, Prof

Director of Academic Council

China Institute of International Studies

China

XU, Mingqi, Prof

Secretary-general,

Shanghai Coordination Center for FTZ Studies

Shanghai Academy for Social Sciences；

President

Shanghai Institute for European Studies

China

YANG, Yi, Admiral (Rt.)

Former Director

Institute of Strategic Studies,

National Defense University

China

YANG, Jian, Prof

Vice President

Shanghai Institutes for International Studies

China

YANG, Jiemian, Prof

Chairman of Academic Council

Shanghai Institutes for International Studies

China

ZHAO, Gancheng, Prof

Director

Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies

Shanghai Institutes for International Studies

China

ZHOU, Hanmin, Prof

Vice Chairman

Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference