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Munich Security Conference 2025

Belfer Center experts convened at the Munich Security Conference in 2025 to contribute to the world's leading forum for debating international security policy.

Explore Belfer work including the launch of a landmark report on the transatlantic relationship; a Belfer Center-sponsored side event on the developing adversarial alignment between Iran, North Korea, China and Russia; and watch media interviews live from the conference as our experts provide commentary on critical security issues of the day. 

Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Graham Allison, a professor of international politics at Harvard University, on Feb 14, 2025 on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany. (PHOTO / XINHUA)
Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Graham Allison, a professor of international politics at Harvard University, on Feb 14, 2025 on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

Graham Allison meets Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of China

Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the only person outside foreign governments that Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, met at the Munich Security Conference, February 2025. 

Allison recently published  Is Trump a China hawk? How Trump, like Nixon, could form a partnership with China in the Washington Post. He also told a World Economic Forum panel in Davos last month that "we'll be surprised" by US-China improvements.