Webinar: “Early Swiss Trade Diplomacy in East Asia”

Switzerland has always been a nation of merchants. The history of the country’s relationship with East Asia is a perfect testimony to that. In this talk, Pascal Lottaz will present some of his research on the process through which Switzerland came to build consulates in Yokohama, Manila, and Batavia (Jakarta). Businesspeople from Neuchâtel, Zürich, and St. Gallen were pivotal in that story. Not only did they drive Switzerland’s diplomacy forward, they also build business successes that have been with us until today.