Former Bundesrat Ueli Maurer in Beijing: ZHAW experts provide context
Concentrated ZHAW expertise provides clarity: Former Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer was the only Swiss guest of honour to attend China’s military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Blick, the Tages-Anzeiger and other newspapers explain—based on analyses by ZHAW experts Dominique Ursprung and Prof. Florian Keller—next to whom he had to stand for the photos and how important the Chinese consider him to be.
In its 4 September edition, Swiss newspaper Blick writes: “Yesterday, the former SVP Federal Councillor [Ueli Maurer] walked in the wake of controversial leaders to the grandstand of the gigantic Chinese military parade. With this large-scale parade, Beijing marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. In the centre of the capital, the People’s Liberation Army marched across Tiananmen Square. State and Party leader Xi Jinping reviewed the spectacle of more than 10,000 soldiers, hundreds of vehicles, and aircraft.”
In the cited article, as well as in Basler Zeitung, Tages-Anzeiger, Der Bund, and Berner Zeitung, ZHAW experts Prof. Florian Keller and Dominique Ursprung from the Center for Geopolitics and Competitiveness contextualize the visit and analyse the group photo from both a protocol and political perspective.