NBA China, in collaboration with China Macro Group, is hosting a webinar series titled "Staying in Dialogue with China." For the fourth webinar in our 2025 webinar series, we will welcome guest Prof. YU Tiejun, President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS) and Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS) at Peking University (PKU), one of China's leading IR scholars and an influential domestic voice active both in public discourse as well as in the policy community focusing on China's key foreign policy issues. With past academic stints at MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Tokyo University, engaging internationally is another prong of Prof. YU's activities.

This webinar is dedicated to a broad analysis of China's foreign affairs landscape, its strategic thinking and goals as well as key risk factors just before the CCP's "Fourth Plenum" is expected to deliberate and publish the outline of the 15th Five-Year-Plan (2026-2030) in October 2025 and shall equip European business with up-to-date analysis and viewpoints to help inform key management issues including strategy, planning, resilience, scenarios and investment decisions.

To serve this goal, the webinar conversation will seek to cover topics ranging from current dynamics of critical bilateral relationships – especially China-US, China-EU/Europe and China-Russia – and security issues such as cross-strait relations, to China's ambitions in global governance, its agenda for "non-Western" and regional formats such as BRICS+ or the SCO, as well as increasingly important geoeconomic factors such as China's broader "self-reliance" policy or specifically its use of export controls.

Date: Thursday, October 9, 2025

Time: 15:00 pm -15:45 pm

Venue: Zoom