The fifth international scientific conference, this year on the topic “China, Trump 2.0 and the Multipolar World (Dis)order”, organized by the Institute for Asian Studies in Belgrade, the Center for Asian and Far Eastern Studies of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade and the Belt and Road Institute, was held at the Belt and Road Institute in Belgrade on Tuesday, September 15.
The conference was opened by the founder and president of the Institute for Asian Studies, the president of the Center for Asian and Far Eastern Studies of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Dr. Dragana Mitrović, and the director of the Belt and Road Institute, prof. Dr. Bojan Lalić.
The conference dealt with China, its foreign policy and relations with other actors of the international community, America’s influence on the world and East Asia during the second term of President Trump, as well as multipolarity and the growing role of the BRICS Plus group on the international scene. The event was divided into three sessions: “China and major partners in the new global (dis)order – industrial policy, technology, security”, “Trump 2.0 – political, economic and security impact” and “BRICS Plus – multipolarity, limits, potentials and aspirations of the World Majority”.
More than 20 experts from Japan, China, Vietnam, Russia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Sweden, Great Britain, Serbia, Turkey, Poland, Italy and Slovenia participated in the conference.
The founder and main organizer of this series of conferences for ten years is prof. Dr. Dragana Mitrović from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade.
The conference was supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia.