The National Institute of International Strategy Held Academic Symposium on ‘The Regional Environment and Strategy of the Peaceful Development of China’

Academic Symposium on ‘The Regional Environment and Strategy of the Peaceful Development of China’ was held in the National Institute of International Strategy, hosted by NIIS and assisted by the Innovation Program International Strategic Theory Dynamic Track Research Project Group on September 13th, 2013. The symposium was hosted by Deputy Director Li Wen. Director Li Xiangyang pointed out in his opening speech that China’s surrounding environment was more and more important from the perspectives of both politics and security, and he hoped that he could hear suggestions from others through this internal seminar. Scholars deeply analyzed major difficulties and challenges for the peaceful development of China and Asia, including the contradiction between the rebalancing strategy of US in Asia-Pacific region, together with the East Asian international system dominated by US, and the increasing development of China’s power, the ongoing deadlock caused by the island dispute in the process of structurally adjusting China-Japan relations, territorial disputes with neighboring countries such as the Philippines, Vietnam, and other problems with them, and other threats and challenges in the process of peaceful development of China.