China’s moment? Or: A New Cold War in the making? Why geopolitics matter for citizenship education
Panel in cooperation with MERICS, Mercator Institute for China Studies, Germany
China is flexing its muscles and seems to be confident about his new role as a major world power. Should (and can) the West ‘decouple’ its former political, economic and cultural links with China? Is there a way out of this new and dangerous confrontation? How can citizenship education increase the limited knowledge of China and its impact on the world in the coming decades.
Ian Johnson, former Beijing correspondent of NYT and Pulitzer prize winner, Singapore
Junhua Zhang, European Institute for Asian Studies, Belgium
Moderation: Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Senior Associate Fellow, MERICS/Universität Trier, Germany
Introduction: Christoph Müller-Hofstede, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Germany