Our Senior Research Associate Dr. Alaa Aldeek reviewed the current dilemmas and future possible solutions in Middle East governance, analyzing the crucial importance of Xi Jinping’s diplomatic thought, pointing out China’s unique diplomacy as a major power in the quest for the resolution of Middle East issues. Dr. Aldeek is based at the Research Institute on Xi Jinping Thought of Shanghai International Studies University (SISU).
The Workshop of Young Researchers on Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy was held at the Songjiang campus of SISU on 30 September 2025. The conference was organised by the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA) of SISU and the Study Center on Diplomacy of the Shanghai Universities.
Professor Yang Jiemian, former president of the Shanghai Association of International Relations and Chairman of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Shanghai Institutes of International Studies, delivered a keynote address entitled My vision of the Systematic Construction and Academic Interpretation of Xi Jinping’s Diplomatic Thought.
The workshop was attended by young SIRPA graduates, as well as current graduate students keenly interested in mainstream theoretical research. Participating graduate students came from no less than eight country wide institutions as follows:
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
East China Normal University
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Shanghai Institute of International Studies
Jiangsu University
Jiaxing University
Tongling University
Gansu University of Political Science and Law.
The workshop was chaired by Professor Guo Shu Yong, Party General-Secretary of SIPRA at SISU, and the leading expert of the Xi Jinping Thought Institute of Diplomacy. Professor Chang Can from the Department of research results and platform management of the Research Office at SISU, and Professor Liang Kun, Director of the Institute’s Office, also shared their practical experiences.
In his closing speech, Professor Guo praised the brilliant speeches delivered by the graduates, noting that the Chinese Communist Party committee of SISU, the university leadership, and its bodies attach great importance to academic research of Xi Jinping’s Diplomatic Thought, the practice of the “three progressions”.