Dear Members and Friends of SwissCham,

SwissCham Beijing is delighted to invite you to our supported "Staying in Dialogue with China​" webinar series. The upcoming webinar "Changes unseen in a century" – How Beijing sees foreign affairs, geopolitics and geoeconomics as it drafts the 15th Five-Year-Plan (2026-2030), taking place on Thursday, October 9, 2025, 9-9:45 am CEST / 3-3:45 pm CST over Zoom.

For the fourth webinar in our 2025 webinar series "Staying in dialogue with China", CMG and its cooperation partners are looking forward to discussing with our distinguished guest Professor YU Tiejun (于铁军)​, President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS) and Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS) at Peking University (PKU), one of China's leading IR scholars and an influential domestic voice active both in public discourse as well as in the policy community focusing on China's key foreign policy issues. With past academic stints at MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Tokyo University, engaging internationally is another prong of Prof. YU's activities.

This webinar is dedicated to a broad analysis of China's foreign affairs landscape, its strategic thinking and goals as well as key risk factors just before the CCP's "Fourth Plenum" is expected to deliberate and publish the outline of the 15th Five-Year-Plan (2026-2030) in October 2025 and shall equip European business with up-to-date analysis and viewpoints to help inform key management issues including strategy, planning, resilience, scenarios and investment decisions.

To serve this goal, the webinar conversation will seek to cover topics ranging from current dynamics of critical bilateral relationships – especially China-US, China-EU/Europe and China-Russia – and security issues such as cross-strait relations, to China's ambitions in global governance, its agenda for "non-Western" and regional formats such as BRICS+ or the SCO, as well as increasingly important geoeconomic factors such as China's broader "self-reliance" policy or specifically its use of export controls.

This webinar will be moderated by Markus Herrmann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director of CMG. Take the opportunity to listen in and ask your questions to Prof YU.

This webinar will not be recorded, but a transcript will be published following the webinar.

With best regards,

Your SwissCham Team