HOW CHINA IS DEALING WITH WORLD CHAOS UNDER DONALD TRUMP
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Raimund Löw in conversation with Xifan Yang, Anna Lisa Ahlers, Jörg Wuttke and Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
HOW CHINA IS DEALING WITH WORLD CHAOS UNDER DONALD TRUMP
The People's Republic of China sees its rise as a world power permanently hindered by countermeasures from the superpower USA. From the Chinese perspective, Europe dances far too much to the American tune. President Trump is also increasing instability.
How the leadership in Beijing reacts to the new situation in international politics will be decisive in the coming years. A high-ranking panel of experts will discuss the situation from a Chinese perspective: journalist and author Yang Xifan, sinologist Anna Lisa Ahlers and Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, chaired by Raimund Löw.
The omnipotence of Chinese President Xi Jinping seems almost limitless in this decisive phase in his own country. But the brilliant boom for China's economy has come to an end. The globalisation of recent decades could be replaced by tariffs worldwide. As the world's leading exporter, China would be particularly hard hit if the major economic areas were to be sealed off.
How strong is Chinese state capitalism under the leadership of the Communist Party? How do people experience the intensified repression under Xi Jinping? What can Europe expect from an emphatically self-confident leadership in Beijing in the clinch with the USA?
Raimund Löw, Journalist and creator of the podcast Falter Radio. He was a correspondent for ORF in Beijing, Brussels and Washington DC. Book (together with Kerstin Witt-Löw) „Weltmacht China. With a foreword by Hugo Portisch“ (2018)
Xifan Yang, German journalist and author. In her book „Als die Karpfen fliegen lernten“ (2015), she describes the story of her family from the Chinese province of Hunan. Yang Xifan worked as a correspondent for the weekly newspaper Zeit in Beijing
Anna Lisa Ahlers, German sinologist. She researches and teaches at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and at the University of Oslo. Books: The Great Smog of China: A Short Event History of Air Pollution (with Mette Halskov Hansen and Rune Svarverud); Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems in 21st Century World Society (with Damien Krichewsky, Evelyn Moser and Rudolf Stichweh)
Jörg Wuttke, is a partner at Dentons Global Advisors in Washington DC. He was BASF Representative in Beijing for 27 years until July 2024. He was President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China from 2007 to 2010; 2014 to 2017 and 2019 to 2023. Wuttke was Chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce from 2001 to 2004. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin since its foundation in 2013. He lived in Beijing for more than three decades.
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, University Professor (retired) for Sinology at the University of Vienna and Programme Director China at the Austrian Centre for Strategic Analysis, Vienna