OPTION CHINA?
Raimund Löw in conversation with Jörg Wuttke, Alexandra Siebenhofer, Marina Rudyak and Felix Lee
OPTION CHINA?
What is possible, what is impossible, in relations between Europe and China in times of general uncertainty caused by Donald Trump? Does Chinese President Xi Jinping's alliance with Russia's warlord Putin and North Korea's dictator Kim Jong un mean that the new superpower China is losing interest in the old world of Europe? Or even turning hostile and distant?
The panelists are Jörg Wuttke, former head of the European Chamber of Commerce in Beijing and now a partner at the dga-Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington DC, journalist and China expert Felix Lee, Marina Rudyak from the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies at the University of Heidelberg and ORF Asia correspondent Alexandra Siebenhofer.
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)
Marina Rudyak, Sinologist, Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), University of Heidelberg
Alexandra Siebenhofer, Head of ORF Beijing Bureau
Felix Lee, studied sociology, economics and politics and graduated from the Berlin School of Journalism. From 2003 to 2022, he worked as economics and politics editor at taz. From 2010, he was China correspondent in Beijing for nine years. He worked for Table Media before becoming an editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung Dossier. His book »China, mein Vater und ich« became a Spiegel bestseller, won the German Business Book Prize 2023 and was in the top 10 of manager magazin for a year.
Jörg Wuttke, at Dentons Global Advisors in Washington DC. He was BASF Representative in Beijing and President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China for ten years until 2023.Wuttke 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.