GVI Officially Appoints Yang Xiyu as Director of the Northeast Asia Research Center

On April 14, Grandview Institution officially appointed Yang Xiyu as Director of the Northeast Asia Research Center of Grandview Institution, where he will lead the Center’s research and exchange work. Ren Libo, President of Grandview Institution; Zhang Tuosheng, Chief Research Fellow of Grandview Institution; and Professor Jia Qingguo, former Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, attended the appointment ceremony.

Mr. Yang has long been engaged in research on U.S. diplomacy, Asia-Pacific security, and issues related to the Korean Peninsula, and has made important achievements both as a career diplomat and as a scholar. From 1994 to 2005, he served at the Chinese Embassy in the United States and the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations. From 2004 to 2005, he served as Director of the Office for Korean Peninsula Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, participating in the Geneva Four-Party Talks on the Korean Peninsula issue and the Beijing Six-Party Talks on the Korean nuclear issue. During this period, he was involved in planning and drafting the September 19 Joint Statement, the common program for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. In 2008, he joined the China Institute of International Studies as a Research Fellow and has been a recipient of the State Council Special Allowance. He has published nearly one hundred articles in journals in China and abroad. His representative works include Several Legal Issues Concerning the Establishment of a Peace Regime on the Korean Peninsula.

Grandview Institution officially established the Northeast Asia Research Center in 2021, with Zhang Tuosheng, Director of the Academic Committee and Chief Research Fellow of Grandview Institution, concurrently serving as its Director. Since its establishment, the Center has focused on such issues as the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, the security architecture of Northeast Asia, and regional economic cooperation. In recent years, it has released a number of independent and joint research reports, and has conducted dozens of thematic, small-scale, and sustained closed-door dialogues with former political figures and think tank scholars from South Korea, Japan, the United States, Russia, and the DPRK, establishing mechanisms such as the China-ROK Strategic Security Dialogue and the China-Russia-ROK Trilateral Cooperation Dialogue.

At present, Grandview Institution is preparing to establish a China-DPRK dialogue mechanism and to conduct direct dialogue and exchanges with the DPRK side on such issues as economic cooperation and security on the Korean Peninsula.