Join us for the launch of the Lau Policy Series 2020, brought to you by the Lau China Institute at King's College London and the School of Security Studies.

Our panel will include Director of the Lau China Institute Professor Kerry Brown and Series Lead for Security Studies Dr Zeno Leoni. We'll be discussing the series, its aims and the inaugural topic 'China in the World'.

We'll also be joined by Alice Politi and Francesca Ghiretti to discuss Alice's paper and the first in the series; 'Italy: a case study of the Silk Road Project in Europe'. We'll discuss the recent bilateral agreement between Italy and China, and what it can us about the role of Chinese Foreign Investment for both Chinese trade and diplomacy.