On June 14, 2024, CSEAS Kyoto Director, Professor Mieno Fumiharu, welcomed an official delegation from Huaqiao University’s Research Institute of Global Chinese and Area Studies (RIGCAS). Led by their Dean, Professor Wu Xiao An, the RIGCAS delegation included Professor Feng Libing and Associate Professor Xu Xiaodong. Also present at the meeting were Associate Professor Yamamoto Hiroyuki (chair of the CSEAS’ International Exchange Committee), Professor Caroline Hau (chair of the CSEAS’ Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia Committee), and Program-Specific Assistant Professor Lu Wanxue (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University). During the meeting, CSEAS and RIGCAS exchanged the Memorandum of Understanding and initiated discussion on specific projects aimed at deepening linkages between the two institutes through faculty and staff exchanges and research collaboration.