On May 17th, the 408th lecture (in total) for the Special Lecture on Global Issues series was held with Dr. Choong Young Ahn (Distinguished Professor at GSIS, Chung-Ang University & Former Chairman at Korea Commission for Corporate Partnership (KCCP)) as the speaker. With long-held experience as a researcher, lecturer, and public policy-maker, Dr. Ahn shared his own insights on current progress of economics and trades issue in the decade of multilateralism, new trajectory of US-China relationships, alongside with his original ideas on maneuvers that South Korea can address within its Indo-Pacific Strategy.