What threat does China pose? Political scientist Alexander Görlach on the increasingly aggressive foreign policy of the People’s Republic, dictatorial hubris and the passivity of the West.
Interviewed by
Moritz Baumsteiger
Originally, Alexander Görlach was more concerned with the religious rich, he studied theology in Mainz, Rome and Cairo, but soon turned to the secular rich and thus to political science. After stints as a lecturer at Harvard, Görlach went to Asia as a visiting scholar, to the National Taiwan University in Taipei, the City University of Hong Kong and the Seoul National University in South Korea. He always encountered one topic: the threat posed by the neighboring People’s Republic of China.