Yuan Peng
Yuan Peng (Chinese: 袁鹏) is a Chinese political scientist and former president of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). Yuan's research has largely focused on U.S. politics. He developed the term "great changes unseen in a century" to refer to China's position in contemporary geopolitics. The term has since become a major topic of academic discussion and has been incorporated into the foreign policy discourse of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He is a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Biography
[edit]Yuan Peng is a Chinese political scientist who has spent most of career studying U.S. politics.[1]: 29 Yuan has lived in the United States and been a visiting fellow at U.S. think tanks including Brookings Institution and the Atlantic Council.[1]: 28 At Brookings, Yuan was a visiting fellow for its Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies.[2]
Yuan is a former president of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a top foreign policy think-tank in China and one which is affiliated with the Ministry of State Security.[1]: 28 During his CICIR presidency, Yuan was the secretary general for CICIR's Research Centre for a Holistic Approach to National Security in April 2021 order to further develop the concept of holistic national security.[1]: 37
Yuan is a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress.[3]
Significant views
[edit]Yuan was the first to use the term "great changes unseen in a century" to refer to China's position in contemporary geopolitics.[1]: 26 He began using the term in his essays following the 2007–2008 financial crisis.[1]: 26 It became prominent following the publication of his book Changes Unseen in 400 Years: From Westphalia to a New World Order[1]: 26 and ultimately became a part of CCP general secretary Xi Jinping's foreign policy discourse.[1]: 29 Yuan's book described the Peace of Westphalia as the first major event in the formation of the current world order, followed by the Treaty of Versailles and the Yalta Conference.[1]: 26 Yuan wrote that the world is now going through a fourth major change as a result of global population change, the advancement of technology through a Fourth Industrial Revolution, climate change (including energy transitions), and a shift in geopolitical power from the West to the East.[1]: 26
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[edit]References
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- ^ "Yuan Peng". Jamestown Foundation. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ "中国人民政治协商会议第十四届全国委员会委员名单-新华网". Xinhua. Retrieved 2024-07-23.