CDF 2024 brings together more than 30+ world-class scholars and experts across 7 sub-panels on key issues including Culture, Economics, Sino-Arab relations, Astro-politics, Technology, and Sustainable development.

Panel Topics:

• China’s global narrative: deconstructing discursive power dynamics and the role of media in ethical knowledge production

• Space policy and China’s developmental trajectory

• The rise of a third voice in the arab world: China’s growing engagement in the middle east

• Navigating an age of economic uncertainty: deciphering China’s economic Future (Post-covid)

• Beyond derisking: navigating fragmentations for unified climate action

• Fusing the circulation: understanding Renminbi in a fragmented global economy

• Technological decoupling: implications on CHina’s chip market and development in the context of international relations