European Perspectives  on the New Silk Road – Re-engaging China?
19 April 2023; 9:30 - 12:30 CEST
Location: Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen, ZF Campus
Organizer: Zeppelin University -
Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin (LEIZ) + Centre for Leadership and Innovation in Asia (CLIA)

Subcect: The monumental connectivity project of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), or New Silk Road, initiated by Xi Jinping almost a decade ago, has gained considerable attention both in the developed world and the Global South. However, with the US-Chinese trade war since 2017, the Corona pandemic since 2020 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we have experienced a paradigmatic shift towards economic and political competition in a global zero-sum game, with the US and the People’s Republic of China leveraging their respective geopolitical influence in a worldwide contention.

Others, such as the EU, South East Asia and India come under increasing pressure to choose sides. We facilitate adiscussion among Chinese and international experts to revisit the topic of European Perspectives on the BRI in light of recent developments to increase mutual understanding and reduce systemic myopia.

The Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin(LEIZ) organized a Transcultural Leadership Summit on the European Perspectives on the New Silk Roads and in 2022 Josef Wieland, Jessica G. Schwengber and Matthias Niedenführ published a volume with Metropolis on this topic. Now LEIZ and its new Centre for Leadership and Innovation in Asia (CLIA) organizes an event on campus at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen to rekindle the debate.

Speakers:

Prof. Li Ma (Peking University), Rudolf Scharping (ret.; Prime Minister, Min. of Defense), Prof. Klaus Mühlhahn (President, ZU), Lauren A. Johnston (ANU), Josef Wieland (Director, LEIZ), Matthias Niedenführ (Director, CLIA) etc.

More: here
All speakers: here