Program

For three days, journalists will meet other knowledgeable mediators of information from different regions of the world in Innsbruck. In conversations with colleagues and other experts, visitors find out what is going on behind the scenes of the information on international events, which is often hastily and superficially conveyed, and can contribute.

Current social, political and cultural developments are the focus of the debates, from book presentations, exhibitions, doc-films and audio features. The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

Faculty of Catholic Theology, Leopoldsaal

“In China’s Wake”

The Great Power’s Spiderweb

Conversation

At the peak of the Greek financial crisis, China secured a majority stake in the Port of Piraeus – largely unnoticed by the European public. To speed up transport to the North of Europe, a new railway line is built connecting Athens to Budapest, with China footing the bill. Much like a spiderweb, land and sea routes, ports, terminals and power plants – all financed and built by China – span the globe. The rather heavy-handed approach to nature and local communities in infrastructure projects under this so-called Belt and Road Initiative becomes evident with Chancay, on the Peruvian Pacific coast. Here, Cosco Shipping – the worlds largest integrated freight transport operator and a Chinese state-owned enterprise – has built a deep-sea port, connecting South America directly with China for the first time – cutting shipping times by 10 days.
The report “Im Kielwasser Chinas” (In China’s Wake) by Daniel Puntas Bernet and Rocío Puntas Bernet was published in Reportagen, Bern, #85, in November 2025.

Daniel Puntas Bernet
Editor-in-Chief of Reportagen, Bern, founder of the True Story Award

Rocío Puntas Bernet
Editor for Reportagen, Bern, Programme Director of the True Story Award

In conversation with
Barbara Bachmann
Freelance Reporter for mare, Reportagen, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and others, South Tyrol

German

Free admission

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