Ambassador Wu Hongbin Gave First Talk at the Ambassadors’ Forum

On March 27, 2019, SAIAS and the Center for Russian Studies at ECNU inaugurated the Ambassadors’ Forum, which aimed to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between China and Russia. The keynote speaker at the event was Ambassador Wu Hongbin, who had served as China’s ambassador to Tajikistan, Belarus and Turkmenistan and currently holds the vice-chairmanship of the Sino-Central Asian Friendship Association. Ambassador Wu’s talk focused on the last decade of Sino-Soviet relations before the disintegration of the Soviet Union.