Dr. Peng Yuan, Assistant President of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, Beijing
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Weaver Conference Center, Institute of the Americas![]()
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Dr. Peng Yuan, assistant president of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) in Beijing, conducts research on U.S. foreign policy, Sino-American relations, Trans-Pacific relations and Chinese foreign policy. Since joining CICIR in 1997, Dr. Yuan has published widely in both Chinese and foreign journals such as Survival, Global Asia, China Security, as writing commentary for influential newspapers such as People’s Daily, Global Times, China Daily. In addition to authoring numerous policy reports, he has also contributed to several book chapters and is the editor of the book American Think-Tanks and Their Attitudes towards China. Dr. Yuan has participated in many international conferences and has traveled extensively for in the USA, Russia, Japan, North and South Korea, Sweden, Iran, Canada, Germany, France. He was a visiting fellow at the CNAPS Program of Brookings Institution from 2003-2004, and visiting scholar at the Atlantic Council of the United States from 1999-2000. Dr. Yuan earned his Ph.D. in history from the Northeast Normal University of China. He speaks both Chinese and English.
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