President Sang Hyun Lee of Sejong Institute attended the 6th International Forum on Security and Strategy hosted by Tsinghua University's Center for International Security and Strategy. It was founded in 2018 by Fu Ying, former foreign minister of the People's Republic of China, and is currently directed by Da Wei. 

This year's forum included chief editor Zanny Minton Meddoes of the UK's Economist, Senior Fellow Jennifer Buoey of the RAND Corporation, Thomas Fingar of Stanford's APARC Institute, Scott Kennedy of CSIS, Susan Thornton of the National Council on Foreign Relations, Stephen Orlins, Chairman of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and former NSC member Daniel Russel and many others. On the Chinese side, Wang Jisi from Peking University, Zhu Feng from Nanjing University, Zhang Tuosheng from China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies, and Zhang Tuosheng from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

This year's Forum agenda was organized into three sessions: International Order and U.S.-China Relations, Global Hotspots (Ukraine, Middle East, and Korean Peninsula), and Economics/Technology/Global Governance. The general consensus among attendees was that circumstances have changed for the worse on key global issues, including U.S.-China relations and the Ukraine crisis.​