Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidtwas a German statesman and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, who served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974 to 1982...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 December 1918
exactly mind ms point
On this point I am of exactly the same mind as Ms Merkel.
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After having known all the top Chinese statesmen from Mao Zedong onwards, I am quite confident that also the present leadership is convinced of this necessity,
chinese confident convinced known leadership mao present quite statesmen top
After having known all the top Chinese statesmen from Mao Zedong onwards, I am quite confident that also the present leadership is convinced of this necessity,
appears correct elements focused independence instance law march parts preventing quoting report republic state statement
Some parts and some elements of the Pentagon Report are correct. For instance it is correct to state that the PRC (the People's Republic of China) appears focused on preventing Taiwan's independence and also to underline this statement by quoting the 'Anti-Secession Law of March 2005,
ability background beyond correct military peaceful policy power remains state
It is as well correct to state that 'against the background ofthe policy of peaceful reunification PRC has not renounced the use of force.' It is as well correct to state that 'China's ability toproject conventional military power beyond its periphery remains limited,'
ability background beyond correct military peaceful policy power remains state
It is as well correct to state that 'against the background ofthe policy of peaceful reunification PRC has not renounced the use of force.' It is as well correct to state that 'China's ability toproject conventional military power beyond its periphery remains limited,'
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I am confident that China will continue its prudent and cautious exchange-rate-policy,
certainly estimate latter
The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration,
country military thinking
If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy them. That's the normal way of thinking of the military, in America not only but also all over the place, but America or Russia or other countries.
fate today tomorrow
Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.
military important president
President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era.
classic
I've never been a classic Gaulist! Not a Gaulist at all.
military war fighting
Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.
zero views years
I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.