The crisis in Ukraine has become global attention. On March 5, the programme organised an academic lecture and invited Prof. Qin Hui, a former professor of the History Department of Tsinghua University and a famous scholar, to give an academic lecture entitled “Crisis in Ukraine “. In the two-hour lecture, Prof. Qin started by comparing the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 and the annexation of Sudetenland by Germany in 1938, and analysed the historical context of the Ukraine and Ukraine-Russia relations in depth, responding to several popular views, and analysed the deficiencies of modern international law and international political rules. Prof. Qin had a lively discussion with the participants.