Tsinghua hosts forum on challenges in post-pandemic era

Photo shows the online forum. (Courtesy of Tsinghua)

China's Tsinghua University hosted an online forum to discuss major security challenges facing the international community and ways to tackle them in the post-pandemic era.

The World Peace Forum was held online this year due to COVID-19, said Tsinghua University President Qiu Yong, who is also the chairman of the forum.

He emphasized the importance of coordinated international efforts to overcome the current crisis.

As an international platform on security issues, the World Peace Forum would like to make its own contribution by offering a platform for scholars and politicians "to sit down and talk to each other" and "to do something to prevent disorder," he said.

"Tsinghua is convinced that universities should be committed to social responsibility," he said, noting the university also attaches great significance to international cooperation.

Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government from Harvard University, said at the forum that international cooperation will continue as "coronavirus provides a vivid reminder that each nation, China, the U.S. and every other nation, faces external threats it can't defeat itself by acting alone."

The two-day conference concluded on Wednesday.

Tsinghua University initiated this non-governmental forum in 2012.