looking forward!

My DW colleague Birgitta Schülke and I together with ZDF's @hanskoberstein.bsky.social and Marta Orosz
found that dozens of projects were filed by just one company in China. But we also looked into the German side of the affair. How could all of these projects be approved?

One often had the impression that these attitudes were based on a belief in the sheer power of “negotiation” to reduce “tension”—a belief which is not held by the Politburo, and which is false when one applies it to dealings with the Politburo."

Nathan Leites, A Study of Bolshewism, 1953 /end

They usually did not indicate what they could offer the Politburo and what they would ask in return; or what pressures they would apply to the Politburo to make it retreat from certain vital positions; and how the result would justify a sharp reduction of armament levels in the West. 2/

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