This event is a follow-up to the workshop „German-Chinese Relations in an International Context 2023“ held in September last year.
The focus will be on the significance and further shaping of German-European-Chinese relations in the context of current global conflicts and the international power order in transition.
What scenarios for a future world order are conceivable and what place could Germany/Europe and China each occupy in it? How can bilateral relations be continued as constructively and productively as possible in a time of global upheaval? Which areas of co-operation appear particularly suitable and forward-looking?
The workshop will take place as a hybrid event in presence at the Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin and digitally under the technical direction of the University of Duisburg-Essen via the Zoom platform.
Date:
Monday, 16 September 2024, 10.00 –19.00 h (CET) / 17.00 – 0.00 h (Beijing time)
In-person Location:
Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin
Goßlerstraße 2-4
14195 Berlin
Room 203 (lecture hall)
Online participation:
Registration required: https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/webinar/register/WN_SrHLXiNtSY26wnDSQjK5dw
Access details will be provided upon registration.
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Program (PDF zum Download)
September 16, 2024
Sino-German Relations in Times of Global Crises
10.00 AM– 19.00 PM (CET) 17.00 PM– 0.00 AM (Beijing time)
10:00 Welcome (Mechthild Leutner, Chen Hongjie, Nele Noesselt)
10:10 Panel I: Political Relations I (Chair: Nele Noesselt)
10:10 Jiang Feng (Shanghai International Studies University): Die Zukunft Europas und das strategische Gleichgewicht
10:30 Eberhard Sandschneider (Freie Universität Berlin): German-Chinese Relations in an Era of Global Crisis
10:50 Discussion
11:10 -11:25 Break
Panel I continued (Chair/Discussant: Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer)
11:25 Michael Staack (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg): Germany’s First China Strategy – A Comprehensive Approach?
11:45 Xiong Wei (China Foreign Affairs University): Trust in German Diplomacy and Building the China-German Trusting Relationship
12:05 Discussion
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Panel II: Sino-German Relations in Times of (Global) Crises (Chair/Discussant: Eberhard Sandschneider)
13:30 Zhang Le (Peking University): Crescendo of Dissonance: China-Germany and Germany-China Higher Education Collaboration in Geopolitical Perspective
13:50 Gu Su (Beijing Foreign Studies University): Germany’s Approach to the Global South and the German-Chinese Relation
14:10 Chen Hongjie (Peking University): Deutschlandkompetenz an chinesischen Hochschulen: Charakteristika und Tendenzen
14:30 Discussion
14:45-14:55 Break
14:55 Huang Jing (Shanghai International Studies University): Prospect of Chinese-German relations in the context of the Ukraine war and the ultra-rightist momentum in Germany
15:15 Hajo Funke (FU Berlin) Global Politics: China’s Initiatives for Negotiations in Ukraine and Gaza
15:35 Discussion
15:55-16:10 Break
16:10 Panel III: Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Sino-German Relations (Chair/Discussant: Xiong Wei)
16:10 Shih Chih-yu (NTU Taiwan): Security as Civilized Colonialism: What Does China Know about Multilateralism?
16:30 Mechthild Leutner (FU Berlin): Post-colonial perspectives on Chinese-German relations
16:50 Discussion
17:10 – 17:20 Break
17:20 Hu Chunchun (Shanghai Academy of Global Governance and Area Studies): From Celan’s Death Fugue to the ICC arrest warrant. A Chinese perspective on the dilemma in the post-war construction of German identity
17:40 Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (Universität Tübingen): China’s Renaissance and Europe’s Turning Inward
18:10 Nele Noesselt (Universität Duisburg-Essen): Triangular Relations: Sino-German Relations and the US
18:30 Discussion & Wrap-Up