On January 10th 2012, members of the Policy Consultation Committee of the Foreign Ministry of China, primarily hosted by the Institute of Political and International Studies of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (IPIS), visited the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies (IMESS). In this unofficial meeting, in which both the resident and visiting research fellows of the IMESS attended, Professor Kayhan Barzegar, Director of the IMESS, Mr. Ji Peiding, head of the Chinese delegation, Professor...