Asia Society Switzerland

Wie China über Trump denkt, Indiens Aufstieg und Beziehungen zu Russland, die Gefahrenlage in Taiwan, und mehr: Ausführliches Interview mit unserem Asia Society Switzerland TOY Senior Fellow James Crabtree von Philipp Löpfe bei Watson: https://lnkd.in/ejtSJ5SW

💹 Global investments in batteries have surged eightfold in just five years. ⚡ Demand for battery power is skyrocketing. 🔬 Innovation is on the cusp of a next breakthrough, promising even lower battery prices and higher capacities. 📺 Join us online in a couple of hours, at 12 noon CEST, for A Closer Look at Batteries to hear about all these transformative developments, and how they impact us. Register here: https://lnkd.in/d3VQjFuV With Duo Fu of Rystad Energy and Marina Zhang of the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney.

The cost of battery power has dropped by 90% since 2010. It explains why batteries increasingly power everything around us. Now, Chinese scientists say they have developed the next generation battery that’s ready to drive your EV and electrify your home at only 10% of current prices. https://lnkd.in/ddm7mvDi Nations increasingly view battery technology as vital for national security and economic competitiveness. Innovations like this will shape new geopolitical relationships and, with that, create opportunity for new dependencies and conflicts. Join us online tomorrow at noon CEST for A Closer Look at Batteries to get the latest on everything around this fast-evolving energy source, with Marina Zhang of the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney and Duo Fu of Rystad Energy. Register: https://lnkd.in/d3VQjFuV This event is organized in partnership with DKSH.

Announcing the Asia Sustainability Dialogue 2024: Eat the Future. Join us on Thu, Aug 29, in Zurich or online for a morning of insights into how we can shape a sustainable food system. By 2050, there will be almost 2 billion more mouths to feed than today. Our existing food systems just aren't up to the task of adequately feeding billions. But work is being done to come up with solutions at scale. Hear from people at the forefront of food. Find out how we can make sure there's enough food of the right quality for everyone in the long term, without exhausting the planet. Featuring XiuLing 秀玲 GUO 郭 of Nurasa, Marcel Andriesse of Swiss Re, Md Saidul Islam of Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Samuel Goh of The Good Food Institute APAC. More speakers to be announced soon. More info: https://lnkd.in/dZnVZ4h3 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dErmPyJQ This event is organized together with the Swiss Re Institute.

What an incredible first week of James Crabtree's fellowship! And this is just the beginning. James will be back in Zurich in early October for a Big Picture event with "Age of Vice" author Deepti Kapoor. Tickets are now on sale! ➡ https://lnkd.in/e7DjA8ec In November, he will join us at our flagship conference STATE OF ASIA, where he will speak alongside other experts such as: Adam Tooze, Asia Society President Kyung-wha Kang, Bruno Maçães, Yumiko Murakami, Qing Wang and Zichen Wang 王子辰. More information: https://lnkd.in/ettUpQGa In between, we'll see James online for various meetings and events with Asia Society Switzerland and the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. Stay tuned. Thank you, James, for kicking off this fellowship with such energy and insight. And a special thank you to Max Burger, Monique Burger and the "Thinking of Yves" Family, Hong Kong, for the generous support!

Time flew by so fast for our Asia NEXT participants this year. To think that only three weeks ago, we were on a company visit at Julius Baer and listened to a fantastic presentation by Christian Cappelli, Managing Director and Head Asia Switzerland, Serena Wong, Managing Director Senior Advisor for Asia Switzerland, and Eunice Zehnder-Lai, Board Member of Julius Baer and Asia Society Switzerland, about Julius Baer's fascinating history and its current activities in Asia, while last week we already celebrated this year's participants' graduation from the program! What a great journey this has been 🚅 At the graduation, our Asia NEXT participants – now alumni – presented their group work and the results of their reflections over the four months of the program. A warm congratulations to all of our Asia NEXT 2024 graduates! 🎉🎓👏 Simon Binder Maren Bodenschatz Stephan Burger Roger Eichenberger Ivo Fölmli Viviane Gao Daniela Jenni Vijay Jonnalagadda Jasmin Künzle Wen L. Gabriele Mauri Nicoletta Polano Anne-Claire Ramser Roggo Julian Röger Fabienne Rohner Mark Rueegg Jasmin Tobler Christoph Weckerle Frank Wulms We look forward to your continued participation in Asia Society Switzerland events and the Asia NEXT Alumni community. Many exciting opportunities for connection and expansion of your Asia Competence await you in the months and years to come! A big thank you also to our brilliant experts who facilitated the four Asia NEXT sessions, from strategic empathy and macroeconomics to geopolitics and innovation: Bernardino Regazzoni Martin Dusinberre Michael Settelen (孙明夏）Simona A. Grano Patrick Reinmoeller And last but not least: thank you to IMD for the wonderful collaboration on Asia NEXT! 🤝 Asia NEXT will return in 2025 for the employees of Corporate Members and Partners of Asia Society Switzerland. The call for applications will be shared in late 2024. Start preparing for your Asia NEXT journey by learning more about the program on our website today:  https://lnkd.in/ea5wcZ9M #AsiaCompetence #AsiaNEXT #Graduation #ExecutiveEducation Nico Luchsinger Madelaine Wiebalck 吳美月 Remko Tanis Émilie Luthringer

Around the Indo-Pacific in 60 minutes 🌏 Sounds impossible? Not when your speaker is James Crabtree! In just one hour, our new TOY Senior Fellow took us from China and India to Indonesia and the Koreas, showcasing what developments in the region mean for local actors – as well as for all of us here in Europe. During yesterday's closed-door Executive Roundtable we touched on several pressing issues: - What's the future of U.S.-China relations? - What are India's foreign policy goals? - What are Europe's blind spots regarding Asia? - Where does Switzerland fit into the bigger picture? James's insights left us with much food for thought. A big thank you to James for this fantastic discussion – and to all our participants: thank you for your great questions and active participation! Learn more about the TOY Senior Fellowship here: https://lnkd.in/ejfGTMrZ 💡 Want to hear from James directly? Don't miss the STATE OF ASIA Conference on November 7, where James will be speaking alongside further distinguished experts from across the globe. More information here: https://lnkd.in/ettUpQGa

Love songs float through the work of Taiwanese artist Ting-Jung Chen and they don’t hold back on romantic tropes: "Giving my heart to you Show the love you see is true" Only when listening closely, you can hear dissonances in both tone and content. Last week, we welcomed the artist here in Zurich, and she shared with us insights into her art practice and her approach to one of today’s geopolitical hotspots: the relation between China and Taiwan. In her work "You Are the Only One I Care About (whisper)", two opera singers interpret Chen’s recomposition of a pop song by Taiwanese icon Teresa Teng. Some of Teng’s songs were used in the sonic warfare between KMT Taiwan and Communist China during the Cold War (1953-1992). One of the transmitters of this propaganda attack was the Beishan Broadcasting Wall on Kinmen – a Taiwanese island located just off the coast of Mainland China. It served as an inspiration for Chen’s own broadcasting wall – a structure made out of metal sheets and papier maché cones for which she used old newspaper. And here’s where Chen’s ingenuity comes all together: building a three dimensional object out of two dimensional material, a construction that appears much more solid than its fragile state gives away. Chen is not only reinterpreting historical artifacts, but giving it new life, taking another look at a relation that is full of intense emotion, just like that of lovers: "You know my heart and how I only care about you – only you I have always tried to be the one like you – only you There are chances there You fight me for the harmony Trying hard to find a way to make it right" The video of the conversation with Chen and Simona A. Grano including documentation of the installations and sounds is now online: https://lnkd.in/e8_EJKjp Thank to our partners Bergos AG, Debattierhaus Karl der Grosse and sinokultur, and to André Hengst for the amazing pictures.

We are excited to announce Jeanette Gautschi, Gen A Fellow 2023, as recipient of the Gen A Alumni Travel Grant 2024. 🎉 🇨🇳 🇨🇭 ☀ Jeanette will be traveling to Shenzhen and the Greater Bay Area to create a supply chain for solar roof tiles from China to Switzerland. Connect with her on LinkedIn to follow her journey in the upcoming months. Learn more on our website: https://lnkd.in/eysDdd8w A huge thank you to Karin Wiederkehr, Stefan Wiederkehr and IMP AG for their generous support.

You had questions for Asia Society's President and CEO, and she answered! Check out this video from Dr. Kyung-wha Kang answering your questions about what she's reading, her vision for Asia Society, and more! And share more questions in the comments below for our President's next Q&A! #AsiaSociety #AAPI