On June 6, 2022, Yu Tiejun, Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), Peking University (PKU), attended the eleventh Annual Conference of Council of Councils (CoC) hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The conference was attended by participants in both virtual and in-person formats. Zha Daojiong, Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS), PKU, also attended the conference.

A total of 28 think tanks from 24 countries participated in the conference. The Chinese think tanks that attended the conference were the IISS, PKU and the Shanghai Institute for International Studies. Participants at the conference discussed three major topics: "The West, Russia, and Ukraine", "Common Challenges Think Tanks Face", and "Global Economic Outlook". Vice President Yu Tiejun and Prof. Zha Daojiong took part in the discussion and delivered speeches.

The CoC is a network of global think tanks initiated and established by the CFR. It is designed to connect leading foreign policy institutes from around the world in a dialogue on issues of global governance and multilateral cooperation and to bring together intellectual power to address common threats and provide innovative ideas, thus providing recommendations and solutions to public policy debates and decision-making processes in member countries. The CoC is composed of leading think tanks from 24 countries, roughly tracking the composition of the Group of Twenty (G20). A list of member organizations is available on the Council of Councils roster page.

Editor: LI Fangqi