At the invitation of Mission to ASEAN of the People’s Republic of China and the Indonesian University’s ASEAN Research Center, on April 9, 2018, Professor He Liping of BNUBS went to Jakarta to participate in the International Symposium hosted by China’s Mission to ASEAN to commemorate the 15^th Anniversary of the China-ASEAN Strategic Partnership with Asian Studies Institute of China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU).

Ambassador of China’s mission to ASEAN Huang Xilian, ASEAN Secretary-General Dato Lim Jock Hoi and senior officials of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs addressed the opening ceremony. The ambassadors or senior representatives of all important partners’ missions to ASEAN (Japan, South Korea, Australia, Russia, etc.) attended the opening ceremony in the morning and the symposium in the afternoon.

Professor He Liping, expressing his opinions of the Sino-US trade disputes’ impact on ASEAN economies in the afternoon symposium, pointed out that if the Sino-U.S. trade relationship deteriorated, due to China’s key position in the East Asian industrial chain, the ASEAN economies would not have any significant trade diversion effect in the short term, probably suffer major setbacks along with China’s trade. In addition, if major ASEAN economies, having a large trade surplus in the trade with the United States in recent years, turns to an important country of trade deficit with the United States in the future following China, they will also become one of the point aim of US trade policy.

On the morning of April 10, Professor He Liping visited the ASEAN Secretariat with the Asian Studies Institute of CFAU and some scholars. Vongthep Arthakaivalvatee, the Deputy Secretary-General for Socio-Cultural Affairs of the ASEAN Secretariat and his assistant exchanged views with the delegation on the objectives and process of setting up ASEAN Community.

In the afternoon, Professor He Liping visited China’s Mission with the delegation and conducted friendly academic exchanges with officials of the mission and the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia.

The visit was led by Jiang Ruiping, Deputy President of CFAU and Guo Yanjun, Director of CFAU Asian Studies Institute. The accompanying scholars were: Su Hao, Professor of Department of Diplomacy, CFAU, Xu Liping, Director of the Society and Culture Studies of the Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Wang Yuzhu, Director of Regional Cooperation Research Office, CASS, and Sun Jianhua, former Deputy Director of the International Bureau of the Ministry of Culture. The foreign participants of the international seminar included diplomatic officials and scholars from 10 ASEAN countries and senior and young scholars from various universities in Indonesia.