SIIS and CASS Co-organizes a Webinar on Common Threats to Pakistan & China in Information Warfare and Signs MoU

2023/10/25

On October 23, 2023, SIIS jointly organized a webinar on Common Threats to Pakistan & China in Information Warfare in collaboration with the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS), Islamabad, Pakistan. SIIS president Chen Dongxiao delivered welcome remarks. Dr. Liu Zongyi, Senior Fellow and Secretary General, China and South Asia Center, Shanghai Institute for International Studies, SIIS, Dr. Li Jingfeng, Research Fellow of Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, AM M.Ashfaque Arain (Retd), Advisor of CASS, and Dr. Usman Chohan, Advisor of CASS made presentations on information warfare. Over twenty Chinese and Pakistan scholars had discussions on China-Pakistan cooperation in addressing disinformation warfare and cognitive warfare.

Chen Dongxiao President of SIIS and Air Marshal Farhat Hussain Khan (Retd), President of Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS), Islamabad, and Caretaker Adviser to the Prime Minister on Aviation, Pakistan signed the MoU on behalf of each organization. Both sides look forward to further enhancing mutual understanding between China and Pakistan and making new contributions to bilateral relations through institutionalized exchanges of ideas and personnels.

Dr. Wu Chunsi, Director of the Institute for International Strategic and Security Studies, SIIS and Dr. Li Hongmei, Research Fellow of the Institute for International Strategic and Security Studies, SIIS participated in the webinar.