Alexander Goerlach is a jack of all trades. The former journalist and founding editor of the debate magazine „The European“ has devoted himself to science for several years. Goerlach, who holds two doctorates in Catholic theology and linguistics, has been in and out of Harvard and Cambridge. His field of research: the future of liberal democracy. Inevitably, he thus also began to look more closely at China, as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong. A stay in 2017/18 took Goerlach to the National Taiwan University and the City University of Hong Kong.