Asia Smart City Quarterly Review West Asia (2023Q1).pdfEditor's CommentOn March 10th, 2023, the People’s Republic of China, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Islamic Republic of Iran released a Joint Trilateral Statement in Beijing, announcing that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran had reached an agreement to resume diplomatic relations between them. This China-le...
2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the first proposal of the concept of “Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind” by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Against this background, Prof. Wang Dong was interviewed by China News, talking about its profound practical significance.Prof. Wang reckons that the concept transcends the known boundaries of the states and ethnicity and sees the ent...
The annual conference hosted by the Institute of Foreign Affairs & National Security (IFANS) of theKorea National Diplomatic Academythemed "Global Pivotal States: Visions & Strategies” was successfully held on November 02, 2022.Senior practitioners and renowned scholars were invited to the conference, including H.E. Park Jin (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the ROK), Prof. John Mearsheimer (Dis...
On 7 March 2023, a press conference was held on the margins of the First Session of the 14th National People’s Congress at the Media Center, during which Foreign Minister Qin Gang answered questions from Chinese and foreign media about China’s foreign policy and external relations.Qin Gang:Friends from the media, good morning. I’m very pleased to meet you.As the world is undergoing major cha...
I. BackgroundThe issue of security bears on the well-being of people of all countries, the lofty cause of world peace and development, and the future of humanity.Today, our world, our times and history are changing in ways like never before, and the international community is confronted with multiple risks and challenges rarely seen before. Regional security hotspots keep flaring up, local conf...
President Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening ceremony of the 2022 edition of the Boao Forum for Asia tabled a new Chinese initiative for enhancing international security. (NB: The Chinese foreign ministry has just launched "The Global Security Initiative Concept Paper".) The timing of the speech — one day before Russian forces moved into Ukraine — could not have been more coincidental.Intern...
In his online meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in November 2021, US President Joe Biden proposed guardrails for the US–China relationship. His proposal reflected deep concerns about the potential for a military confrontation due to a miscalculation or an accident.More than a year has passed since then, so have such guardrails have been established? Is the relationship between the two...
On February 21, 2023, the Lanting Forum themed "The Global Security Initiative: China's Proposal for Solving Security Challenges" was held in Beijing. The forum was hosted by the China Public Diplomacy Association, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, and sponsored by the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding at Peking University and Chongyang Institute for Financ...
On January 5th, 2023, the "Kim Koo Forum" serial lecture hosted by the School of International Studies of Peking University was held online. The lecture themed "Analysis of the Premature Demise of the Unified European-Asian Front Before World War II", and was led by Prof. Hans van de Ven (Professor & Director of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at St Catharine’s College, @Cambridge_...
Asia Smart City Quarterly Review West Asia (2023Q1).pdfI. PrefaceAlthough think tanks and business organizations around the world have studied “regional integration and development” in large volumes, a global vision and a detailed action guide for decision makers are still missing. Therefore, Harbor Overseas (http://en.harbor-overseas.com/), the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understan...
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