On June 6, 2014, Prof. Zhu Feng, Vice President of the Institute of International & Strategic Studies (IISS), Peking University (PKU) and Executive Director of the Collaborative Innovation Center of the South China Sea Studies, made a special report at IISS, PKU. Guan Guihai, Associate Professor and Executive Vice President of IISS, hosted the report meeting. The other participants were Prof. Yuan Ming, Vice President of IISS, Yu Tiejun, Associate Professor and Assistant President, Wu Bingbing, Associate Professor and Special Research Fellow, Associate Prof. Qian Xuemei , etc. 

Prof. Zhu Feng currently serves as a visiting scholar at East Asia Policy Research Center, the Brookings Institution. Based on the past six months’ research experience in the US, he made systemical and in-depth analysis of issues, such as "change of US Think Tank’s attitude toward China in the last decade”, “the intergenerational conversion of China research team in the US Think Tank community”, “focus of US mainstream media regarding Sino-US relation”, “the overall diplomatic strategy and China policy of the Obama Administration", etc. 

Prof. Zhu Feng pointed out that the Obama Administration did not make any significant shift on its China policy as a whole, but sectional policy adjustment in the South China Sea, network security and other issues become increasingly apparent, which will also bring changes to Washington’s approaches and methods they use to deal with the relations with China. Overall, in the future, the global and diplomatic strategic focus of the US will remain to target the Asia-Pacific area. The impact of the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the North Korean nuclear issue on the future trend of Sino-US relation is growing. Prof. Zhu Feng concluded that the future Sino-US relations would continue to be cooperative and competitive. However, the strategic rival relationship between them will be deepening continuously, and the fitness between Sino-US relation and evolution of East Asia regional security order be gradually deepening as well. Confronted by the non-mainstream voices in the US advocating that the US policy toward China should be “Changing” and “Being Fierce”, we need new ideas and new concepts for the stability and sustainable development of future Sino-US relations. 

In the Q&A session, Prof. Zhu Feng and the scholars participating in this meeting made interactive discussion on topics such as Sino-Russian relations, the South China Sea issue, the Japan issue and Sino-US-Japan relations.