As part of the ‘Understanding China’ conference held by the Protestant Academy of Saxony-Anhalt in Lutherstadt Wittenberg from 6 to 8 October 2023, the West-Eastern Encounters Foundation organised a panel discussion entitled ‘A Look at China – From the Perspective of the Neighbouring States’ on 7 October 2023. The foundation has a long-standing partnership with the Protestant Academy and attracted renowned experts to speak about the developments, expectations and challenges of the neighbouring Central Asian countries in relation to China. The participants in the panel discussion were:
Moderation and input
Dr. Beril Ocaklı, Research Associate at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)Dr. Mahabat Sadyrbek, Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Fiona Katherine Smith, MA in Transregional Central Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
Carl Mohr, PhD candidate in politics and international relations, and associate lecturer in the department of social sciences at Oxford Brookes University.
