China’s top security and defense forum, the Beijing Xiangshan Forum, kicked off on Thursday with a series of high-end interviews on topics such as the Global Security Initiative, the Global South, the security in the Asia-Pacific and the China-US relations, as a record-breaking number of participants from more than 100 countries and international organizations gathered in Beijing under the theme of the event, “Promoting Peace for a Shared Future.”
The 11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, scheduled from Thursday to Saturday in the golden autumn of Beijing, is being attended by more than 500 representatives from official delegations of more than 100 countries and international organizations, in addition to over 200 Chinese and foreign experts and scholars.