Journalist and publicist, Asia expert.
Urs Schoettli, born in 1948, studied philosophy at the University of Basel. From 1978 to 1991 he was General Secretary and later Executive Vice-President of the Liberal International in London. From 1983 to 1989 he was South Asia correspondent for the NZZ in Delhi.
correspondent of the NZZ in Delhi, and from 1990 to 1995 he was the representative of the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Spain and Portugal.
Portugal. He also served as honorary secretary of the Great European Commission from 1993 to 1995. In 1996 he returned to the "NZZ" and was correspondent in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing until 2012. Since 2012 he has worked as an independent journalist and Asia consultant.
Tuesday, 27. September 2016, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
This lecture is organised in cooperation with the Asia Society Switzerland.
China's re-emergence as a world power is not only shaping the global economy and has far-reaching geopolitical consequences. It is also a very important cultural and political, even ideological phenomenon. East Asia, from Malaysia to Japan and Korea, has been most permanently affected. The Confucian city-state of Singapore will be a useful observatory in some respects.