On 20 August 2015, B.A.Hamzah, senior research fellow at the Department of Strategic Studies at Malaysian National Defence University, gave a lecture to NISCSS research staff on geopolitics and the game among the major powers in the South China Sea.

NISCSS President Wu Shicun, NISCSS Vice President Xi Jinsong and Zou Keyuan, Harris Professor of International Law at the Central Lancashire University, attended the lecture.