On December 9, 2020 the Valdai Discussion Club opened its 11th Asian Conference with a session titled “The Shock of 2020: What We Lost and What We Gained in International Relations.” Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, opened the meeting. Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Akshay Mathur, Director of ORF Mumbai; Nguyen Hung Son, Director General of the Institute for the South China Sea at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam; Viktor Sumsky, Director of the ASEAN Centre, MGIMO University; Zhou Bo, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS), Tsinghua University, Former Director of the Center for Security Cooperation in the Office for International Military Cooperation, Ministry of National Defense participated. The session was moderated by Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club.