The Asia-Pacific is witnessing a rapid reconfiguration of alliances, with profound implications for China-U.S. relations and regional security and stability.

On one side, the U.S. has been strengthening its hub-and-spoke alliance system in this region while creating new alliances like AUKUS. On another side, Russia and the DPRK have fundamentally improved their security cooperation during the Russia-Ukraine War. All this while China is caught between its deep worry about what it perceives as an Asia-Pacific version of NATO and its reluctant entanglement in the Russia-DPRK Pact.

How is China navigating this complex and evolving landscape?

The China Program at Stanford’s Shorenstein APARC welcomes Prof Yu Tiejun to cover these new developments and analyze the perils of alliance dilemma in the Asia-Pacific region.

Yu Tiejun is APARC's China Policy Fellow for the 2024 fall quarter. He currently serves as President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS) and Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS), all at Peking University (PKU). Previously, he studied at the University of Tokyo in 1998-2000. He served as visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University in 2005, and also as visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University in 2005/6.