| Participants from the Chinese Side |
Li Fenglin |
Former Chinese ambassador to Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia |
Bai Shoumian |
Former Chinese ambassador to Bulgaria |
Liu Qibao |
Former Director of the Chinese Liaison Office to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) |
Fan Chengzuo |
Former Chinese ambassador to Albania |
| Zhu Ankang |
Former Chinese ambassador to Hungary |
| Chen Delai |
Former Chinese ambassador to Romania |
| Li Danhui |
Research Fellow, Modern China History Institute |
| Yu Sui |
Senior Research Fellow at the Liaison Department of the CC of the CP of China |
Liu Yanshun |
Former senior Chinese diplomat in Poland |
Niu Jun |
Professor at the School of International Relations at Peking University |
| Shen Zhihua |
Director of the Center for the Study of Far Eastern History, Beijing |
| Zhang Baijia |
Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Third Branch at the Institute for the Study of the History of the CP of China (Party History Research Centre) |
| Li Xiangqian |
Research Fellow and Director of the Party Politics Research Centre, Institute for the Study of the History of the CP of China (Party History Research Centre) |
| Yu Hongjun |
Director of the Research Branch in the Liaison Department of the CC of the CP of China
|
| Participants from the Eastern European Side |
| Romulus Ioan Budura |
Former Romanian ambassador to China |
| Muhamet Kapllani |
Diplomatic Adviser to the President's Office of Albania |
| Otto Juhász |
Former Hungarian ambassador to China |
| Joachim Schröter |
Former East German military attaché in China |
Doncho Donchev
|
Former Bulgarian ambassador to China |
| Jan Rowinski |
Former Director of the China Section, Polish Institute of International Relations |
| Participating Western Scholars |
Odd Arne Westad
|
Professor of International History at the London School of Economics |
| Christian Osterman |
Director of the Cold War International History Project, Wilson Center |
Chen Jian
|
Professor of Chinese-American Relations, University of Virginia |
| Malcolm Byrne |
Deputy Director of the National Security Archive, Washington, DC |
| Vojtech Mastny |
Senior Research Fellow at the National Security Archive in Washington and at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars and PHP Coordinator |
Sergei Radchenko
|
London School of Economics |
| Bernd Schaefer |
German Historical Institute, Washington D.C. |
| Jim Hershberg |
Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University |
| Lorenz Luthi |
Assistant Professor, McGill University, Toronto |
