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This panel, titled "The Euro-Mediterranean Region and China: Emerging Scenarios," is the second of the workshop "A Strategic Nexus: the Euro-Mediterranean Region and China" organized by the ChinaMed Project and Formiche - in partnership with the Center for the Mediterranean Area Studies of Peking University, the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding of Peking University, the TOChina Hub of the University of Turin, the Georgetown Representative Office in Rome, the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and the Department of East Asian Studies of Tel Aviv University. This workshop aims to address trends and challenges of the growing interconnection between the Euro-Mediterranean Region and China and its potential impact on regional and global dynamics.

Keynote Speaker:
Amb. Yue Xiaoyong, Former Ambassador of the PRC to Ireland (2016-2019), to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (2010-2013) and to the State of Qatar (2007-2010).

Discussants:
Mr. Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
Dr. Brandon Friedman, Director of Research at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University
Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino, Director of the TOChina Hub, Vice President and Head of the Global China program at the Torino World Affairs Institute, Tenured Assistant Professor of International Relations of Eastern Asia at the University of Turin.

Chair:
Prof. Wang Dong, Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding (IGCU) and Deputy Director of the Office of Humanities and Social Sciences of Peking University.

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A summary of the panel is also available here (in Italian).