Delivered at the Beijing Forum, 6 November 2009. Questioning Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" notion, Nasr speaks of the concept of Harmony within traditional Chinese culture, about China's relation with the Islamic world and explains why and how "the creation of harmony between any two civilizations cannot but be of benefit to the whole of humanity." An edited version of the talk has been published in the December 2010 issue of Sophia.
