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June 9, 2023: On June 8, Professor Torbjörn Lodén, Head of the ISDP China Center, gave a keynote lecture at the Biannual Conference of the Nordic Association for China Studies in Gothenburg. The topic of his lecture was “What is China? Observations and Perspectives”. Here you can find more information about the conference.

June 9, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, moderated a session at the Three Seas One Opportunity Conference (May 16-17): Asian Card in the Game for the Security of the Three Seas Initiative. Read more about the conference program here.  

June 8, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted in abp live on the topic of the U.S., Australia, and Japan forming a new Quad with the Philippines and if India should be concerned. Jagannath Panda said that India’s strategic significance will be “unaffected” since all […]

June 8, 2023: ISDP is delighted to welcome Tzu-Yi Yang as a Guest Researcher at the Asia Program during June-July 2023. He serves as the Section Chief of the Department of NGO International Affairs within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan and worked at Taiwan’s overseas missions in Sydney, Australia and Saint Lucia. He […]

June 7, 2023: ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Agust Börjesson as a Research Fellow with the Asia Program. Mr. Börjesson recently completed an internship at ISDP’s Stockholm China Center and his work as a Research Fellow will include a focus on Taiwan, particularly in relation to Sweden and the Nordic countries. […]

June 2, 2023: Mats Engman, Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, was quoted in Svenska Dagbladet on whether China can mediate in the Ukraine war. Read the interview here (in Swedish).

June 2, 2023: ISDP is delighted to welcome Sanjiao Tang as a Visiting Fellow during May-June 2023. Sanjiao Tang is an early-career researcher focusing on the history of Mao’s China.He defended his dissertation in August 2021 and received his PhD from the University of Auckland in December 2021. In 2022, he was a visiting research […]

June 1, 2023: On May 26, 2023, ISDP, in cooperation with the city of Malmö, ERIA (Economic Research Institute of ASEAN and East-Asia), and STRING, a cross-border organization spanning cities and regions in Northern Europe, organized a one-day forum in Malmö on pressing issues surrounding the ongoing climate change, development of new technologies and changes […]

June 1, 2023: On May 27, the Swedish Haiku Society, in cooperation with the Japanese Modern Haiku Association and the Haiku International Association, organized a special haiku session in Malmö, Sweden. Three haiku poets had traveled from Japan to Sweden for the occasion: Nishimura Gania, Tsushima Yasuko, and Hotta Kika. From Sweden, a number of […]

May 30, 2023: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on Turkey making impossible demands in its negotiations for approving Sweden’s NATO membership. Read the interview here.