During lunchtime on January 11, 2017, Prof. Wang Jisi, President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), Peking University (PKU) met with Alan Romberg, director of the East Asian Project at the Henry L. Stimson Center; Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of international relations and political science at Boston University; Robert S. Ross, Professor of the department of political science at Boston College; Taylor Fravel, Professor of international relations at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Steven Goldstein, Professor from Smith College. The two sides held a luncheon on topics of common interest such as the Taiwan issue and Sino-US relations. Wang Dong, Associate Professor of the School of International Studies, PKU, also attended the talk.