On April 3,2020, Prof. Yang Jiemian, Chairman of the Council of SIIS Academic Affairs attended a video conference on "Sino-US Relations amid the Pandemic Outbreak and its Outlook" and delivered a keynote speech on "The influence of the Anti-epidemic between China and the United States on the Mutual Policy". The seminar was co-chaired by Professor Zhu Feng, director of Institute of International Relations of Nanjing University and Robert Daley, director of the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.