Well-meaning China bridge builders as victims of a journalism „that believes it can compensate for a lack of knowledge and expertise by adopting the right attitude.“ This is the story that Michael Schumann, Chair of China Bruecke (China Bridge) and Chair German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade (BWA), tells us. „Advocates of Sino-German cooperation are defamed and their reputations tarnished,“ says Schumann, much like in Heinrich Boell’s „The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum.“