This is the first episode of our new series ‘Virtual Classroom’. It consists of a Q & A between Karl-Heinz Pohl, author of a text on “Chinese and Western values”, and 21 students from Xiamen University Malaysia, who have been carefully studying it – most
Professor Pohl, it seems that the media reporting on the Hong Kong protests is terribly biased. On the one hand are ‘Western’ media organizations that emphasize the topic of freedom, on the other hand are the official Chinese media that talk about chaos, disorder and
Today, the radical difference between the past and the future has become more pronounced than ever before. Since many structures have changed in relatively short time intervals and still continue to change, it has become quite obvious that whatever it is that awaits us tomorrow,
Julia, first of all congratulations to an amazing exhibition. When did you first come across this phenomenon of POW camps for ‘colonial soldiers’? It is obviously not a very well-known part of German history. I came across it roughly two years ago when I read
Growth and function
If we had to choose one event in recent history able to illustrate the power of the mass media, it might well be the first lunar landing. This TV broadcast won the so-called Cold War for the USA. Arguments were unnecessary—victory and defeat were decided