Stefan Messingschlager is a historian and political scientist in the Chair of Modern History at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg. Educated at the University of Konstanz and Peking University, his research explores contemporary Chinese history and politics, particularly focusing on Sino-Western relations and the evolution of Western China expertise since 1949. He regularly publishes in academic journals in German, English, and Mandarin.
Kaiser Kuo’s (2025) ‘The Great Reckoning: What the West Should Learn from China’ is a bracing provocation. He argues that China is no longer merely ‘catching up’ but increasingly sets the tempo of economic, technological, and institutional development. Legitimacy in the twenty-first century, he contends, rests increasingly—though not exclusively—on performance, with climate policy as the […]
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