Dr. Zhao gives a great talk that is well worth a listen (and, we should add, he does so in very clear 普通话)! Aside from being educational from a policy and international relations perspective, listening to talks like this multiple times is a great way to internalize longer phrases and linguistic structures.
About Dr. Zhao
Dr. ZHAO Long is an associate professor at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and visiting fellow at CSIS. He graduated from the Law Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) of Russia where he received a Bachelor degree in Jurisprudence and M.A. in International Law. He received his Ph.D. degree in Law from East China Normal University. Dr. ZHAO has published several academic papers on global governance, international law, Arctic issues, Russian and Central Asian studies in major academic journals, and he has also published many articles in major newspapers such as Guangming Daily, Jiefang Daily and Wenhui Bao. He is a leader of research projects supported by National Social Science Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Oceanic Administration of China, and others. He was a visiting scholar of German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin founded by Ford Foundation, and Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso. From 2015 to 2016, Dr. ZHAO has worked on secondment to the Department of Treaty and Law at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China.
