Joybrato Mukherjee, President of the German Academic Exchange Service and Rector of the University of Cologne, believes academic collaboration between China and Germany must be expanded, albeit with more careful scrutiny of content and people. Tim Gabel and Felix Lee spoke with Mukherjee about how this balancing act can be achieved.
By Felix Lee
Despite increasingly totalitarian structures, China has caught up with the leading group of scientific nations and is upsetting conventional theories in the process. A research group from the Max Planck Society wants to find out how this is possible.
By Marcel Grzanna