Chartbook 333 Asia in the age of polycrisis.

It's been said that I like a challenge. It is true that I like a challenge, but on the other hand, spare a thought for the author of this talk, composed over the weekend ahead f the election: an English guy with a strong German and European attachment, sitting in New York, composing a lecture on Asia in the age of polycrisis for an audience in Switzerland, to be given the day after a decisive American election that in large part has been taking place under the sign of the China shock, scheduled thanks to the great cooperation of the university and the miracle of Zoom to give a lecture later that evening to my traumatized American students on the fall of the Weimar Republic.

So, I count eight levels of determination here that characterize my moment this evening.

Sometimes the strongly growing economies of Asia can seem as though they have the antidote to the polycrisis affecting the West. In this lecture I argue, instead, for a vision of the polycrisis both as driven by Asia and encompassing it.

Verbatim transcript pdf here, which I recommend only for the truly hardy. The spoken delivery is far more digestible (I hope).

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