Tim Wenniges is the Managing Director for International Affairs at SUEDWESTMETALL, the Baden-Wuerttemberg Employers’ Association of the Metal and Electrical Industry. Before he was country director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in China. In both positions he works to build and explore bilateral Sino-German ties. With his work and high-level study of the Chinese economy and new possibilities for the Sino-German relationship, his work is of critical value in the development of the contours of Sino-European trade in the decades to come. He is a public speaker and bridgebuilder between Germany and China. He studied and worked for the last 20 years at the interface of industry and politics in several parts of Europe, the US, Indonesia and China.Walter Lohman has been Director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, for the last 12 years, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University for six. Prior to this, he was Executive Director of the US-ASEAN Business Council and spent seven years working on Capitol Hill, for Senator John McCain and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.