In the past years, we hear more and more about the phrase "a New Cold War". Some would say that we are already in it. What are the perspectives of Chinese government and researchers on this? In this episode we discuss with Chinese expert Da Wei about some very contentious issues. Is the worsening of relations between China and the West inevitable? Is the US a declining power? What has Beijing learned from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially with regard to its relation with Taiwan?

Da Wei is the director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua, and professor of department of International Relations, school of Social Science, Tsinghua University. His expertise covers China-US relations and US security & foreign policy. He was the assistant president of University of International Relations (2017-2020), director of the Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (2013-2017), an institute under Ministry of State Security. He has written hundreds of policy papers to Chinese government, and published dozens of academic papers on journals in China, the US and other countries.

He was a visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States from 2006 to 2007, and a visiting senior associate at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University from 2008 to 2009.