On December 19, 2025, the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), Peking University (PKU) held a seminar on “China-U.S. Strategic Competition and New Developments in Export Control Policies” and the 29th North Pavilion Salon.

The seminar brought together experts and scholars from universities and research institutions including the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, the China Machinery Industry Information Research Institute, AliResearch, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Peking University, and the University of International Business and Economics. Prof. Gui Yongtao, Vice President of IISS, PKU, attended the seminar and delivered remarks. The seminar was moderated by Yang Shuiqing, Associate Research Fellow at the Division of American Economic Studies, Institute of American Studies, CASS.

The North Pavilion Salon aims to foster substantive dialogue between theoretical and policy research and provide a platform for young and middle-aged scholars. Participants focused on new developments in China-U.S. strategic competition and export control policies, with discussions centering on tiered discrimination in export controls, rare earth controls, U.S. think tank research on countermeasures to export controls, changes and new developments in U.S. export strategy toward China, restrictions on basic scientific exchange, and China-U.S. technology competition. They observed that China and the United States are currently competing in the domain of upstream resources, with both sides imposing export controls on key products. U.S. restrictions and export controls on China in basic research and high-technology sectors serve multiple objectives spanning economics, security, and other areas. From China's perspective, the export control of products such as rare earths is a process of dynamic adjustment; greater attention needs to be paid to research on the scope and coordination of export controls, with a view to clarifying their positioning, the relevant international rules, and their objectives. Participants concluded that China should strengthen basic research and focus on technological innovation to consolidate its industrial advantages; adopt differentiated management measures in export controls; rally third parties; and seize the strategic initiative by enhancing policy communication with the international community and dynamically optimizing its export control.

Editor: Li Fangqi    Photographer: Zheng Huaizhou