On the
afternoon of March 15th, 2022, the Shanghai Institute for European Studies
(SIES) and the Shanghai Institutes for International studies (SIIS) jointly
sponsored and organized the International Video Conference on the topic of “How
to Move the China-Europe Relations out of difficulties”. President Chen
Dongxiao of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies made the opening
remarks for this conference and President Xu Mingqi of the Shanghai Institute
for European Studies made the concluding remarks. The European participants of
this conference were: Mr. Daniel Gros, Director of the Center for European
Policy Studies (CEPS), Mr. Angela Stanzel and Ms. Nadine Godehardt of the
German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Mr. Mathieu
Duchâtel, Director of the Asian Studies Program of the Institut Montaigne in
France, and Mr. Marton Ugrosdy, President of the Institute for Foreign Affairs
and Trade (IFAT) in Hungary. The Chinese participants of this conference were:
Prof. Zhang Yinghong and Dr. Long Jing, Director and Deputy Director of the
European Studies Institute of the SIIS, Prof. Men Jing, Director of the Center
for European Studies of the East China Normal University, Prof. Xin Hua,
Director of the Center for European Union Studies of the Shanghai International
Studies University, President Xu Mingqi of the Shanghai Institute for European
Studies (SIES), and Dr. Yang Haifeng, Secretary-General of the SIES. On this
conference, both Chinese and European scholars explained and discussed the
barriers and difficulties confronting the China-Europe relations at the
present, from Chinese and European perspectives respectively. They also
evaluated the feasibility of some approaches that may pull the China-Europe
relations out of the existing dilemmas. Furthermore, they took In-depth discussions
over the topics related to the current Russia-Ukraine conflicts and their
influences on the security situations in Europe and the China-Europe relations.
