Yingying Liang was invited toNevşehir HacıBektaşVeli University talking about China’s Foreign policy

On the 2nd of June, Our research assistant Yingying Liang from Institute for Turkish Studies visited Nevşehir HacıBektaşVeli University, as she was invited by Dr. Murat Demirel to give a lecture aboutChina’s Foreign Policy after the Cold War at the International Department.

Surrounding why China insistently highlighted on economy’s development, how foreign countries and experts misunderstood China’s Threat, and the development of the future relationship between China and Turkey, Yingying mainly talked about the Chinese foreign policy’s evolution from‘Keep A Low Profile’policy to positively taking the initiative to act on critical issues with the profound changes unseen in a century. When it referred to the controversial discussions about‘Keep A Low Profile’and the BRI, Yingying thought that there was still a gap for China to smoothly explain itself. However, China gradually realized that better economic cooperation was based on mutual political trust in a sense. In the coming days, China’s BRI will increasingly match Türkiye’s Middle Corridor plan up with the further political trust between the two sides, especially for the cooperation on the digital economy in the future.

The lecture ended with Dr. Liang’s responses to some questions related to current affairs raised by the students.