On September 10, the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) and the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a video dialogue on South Asia issue, which was co-chaired by Mr. Wang Chao, President of the CPIFA, and Mr. Richard Fontaine, Chief Executive Officer of the CNAS.

The participants on the Chinese side include Amb. Wei Wei, former Vice President of the CPIFA and former Chinese Ambassador to India, Mr. Rong Ying, Vice President of the China Institute of International Studies, Prof. Ye Hailin, Vice Dean of the Institute of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Prof. Hu Shisheng, Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, and Prof. Wang Xu, Executive Deputy Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at Peking University.

The participants on the US side include Ms. Lisa Curtis, Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the CNAS, Mr. Jacob Stokes, Fellow of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the CNAS, Mr. Ashley Tellis, Chair for Strategic Affairs of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Prof. Daniel Markey, Academic Director of the Global Policy Programat Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Ms. Tanvi Madan, Director of the India Project at the Brookings Institution, and Prof. David Schullman, Director of the China Global Hub at the Atlantic Council.