On the afternoon of July 6, 2026, David Lake, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California San Diego, visited the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), Peking University (PKU), where he gave a presentation entitled "The New Political Economy of U.S. Trade Policy."

The seminar was attended by Yu Tiejun, President of IISS and Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS), PKU; Gui Yongtao, Vice President of IISS and Associate Dean and Associate Professor of SIS; Jie Dalei, Senior Research Fellow at IISS and Associate Professor at SIS; Wang Yong, Professor at SIS; Chen Shaofeng, Associate Professor at SIS; Dong Zhaohua, Associate Dean and Associate Professor at SIS; Wang Ziyuan, Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations, China Foreign Affairs University; Xu Qinyi, Assistant Professor at SIS; and Zhao Jianwei, Postdoctoral Fellow at SIS, as well as other experts, scholars, and students from related programs.

The seminar was chaired by Prof. Yu Tiejun. Participants held in-depth discussions on the evolution of U.S. trade policy and the new features of the trade policy of the Trump administration, focusing on topics such as tariff policy, trade protectionism, industrial policy, economic security, China-U.S. economic and trade relations, the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the fragmentation of globalization.

Editor: Li Fangqi Photographer: Zheng Huaizhou