SIIS Hosts the 3rd Meeting of the CICA Think Tank Forum

2024年10月12日

The Third CICA Think Tank Roundtable was convened at Hongqiao State Guest Hotel in Shanghai on May 11-12, 2015 sponsored by the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). Present at the Third Roundtable were 35 participants from Afghanistan, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Thailand and Turkey. Ms. Xing Fangfang, the Chinese Senior Official to the CICA, delivered a keynote speech and praised the worthy contribution to the CICA by this Roundtable series. Besides, Singaporean and Thai Consulates-General in Shanghai also sent their observers to participate the discussion.The Third Roundtable focused its discussion on the following five issues related to the CICA. Firstly, the Roundtable explored the status, conditions and causes of the relations between the emerging power of China and the established one of the United States. Secondly, the Roundtable had an intensive discussion on terrorism, extremism and radicalism. Thirdly, many of the participants believed that presently some of the non-traditional security threats caused most losses of lives and properties, such as massive epidemics, Tsunami and other natural disasters. Fourthly, the Roundtable paid particular attention to the important roles of socio-economic developments’ in enhancing security of our time.The Third Roundtable furthered its discussion on the Security Concepts with a view to the relevance to the CICA. Most of the participants believed that security embraces both traditional and non-traditional connotations, that the actors include both state and non-state ones, that security cooperation should be achieved in a multitude of ways at bilateral, sub-regional, regional and global levels.The Third Roundtable made a great progress in discussing CICA institution building. There were mainly two kinds of relevant recommendations. One was to describe the guiding principles such as making full use of the existent mechanisms, incremental upgrading, focusing on the common denominators and providing intellectual and operational advice to the Asian leaders. The other was for concrete developments such as transforming the dialogue forum into an entity organization, regularly evaluating the summits, foreign ministers meetings and senior official meetings, setting up expert groups and thematic task-forces, preparing topic-oriented reports, prioritizing agendas, etc. All the participants took part in the roundtable in their personal capacity and expressed their own commitments to contributing to more rewarding Roundtables in the future. In the meantime, they also hoped that the CICA Think Tank Council’s preparatory work should be accelerated for the better networking and greater achievements.