Saturday, February 22

9:00-10:30      

The Strategic Outlook for China-Europe-U.S. Relations: Domestic and International Agendas  

Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Kenneth Lieberthal, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution

Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times

Zheng Zeguang, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China

Moderator:  Zhou Hong, Director, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

10:45-12:00   

The Political and Economic Significance of the Third Plenum

Cui Liru, Senior Adivisor, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)

Patrick Chovanec, Managing Director & Chief Strategist, Silvercrest Asset Management

Xu Mingqi, Deputy Director, Institute of World Economy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS)

Sabine Stricker-Kellerer, Senior China Counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Moderator: Charles Grant, Director, Center for European Reform (CER)

13:00-14:30    

Managing Risks and Opportunities in a Changing Middle East

 Yang Guang, Director, Institute of West Asia and Africa Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS）

Eckart Von Klaeden, Head of External Affairs, Daimler

Pan Guang, Vice President, Chinese Association of Middle East Studies

David Ignatius, Associate Op-Ed Editor, Washington Post

Moderator: Ian Lesser, Executive Director, Brussels Office, and Senior Director for Foreign and Security Policy, German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)

 14:45-16:00    

Maintaining a Peaceful East Asia: New security concepts, norm-Creation and regime building 

Yang Yi, Director, Institute of Strategic Studies, National Defence University of China

Michael Schiffer, Senior Advisor and Counsellor, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Chen Dongxiao, President, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) Linda Jakobson, Visiting Professor, U.S. Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Moderator:  Helena Sangeland, Deputy Director General, Head of the Department for Asia and the Pacific, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden

16:15-17:00    

Concluding Panel: What’s next for China-Europe-U.S. cooperation?    

Zhang Haibing, Director, Institute for World Economy Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)

Gerhard Sabathil, Director, North-East Asia and the Pacific, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Craig Kennedy, President, German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)

Moderator: Olof Ehrenkrona, Chief of Staff and Political Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden