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Disagreeable partners. How patient should we be with authoritarian states?

December 8, 2009

Frank Sieren hosts the former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

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Western politicians should defend occidental values throughout the world. Yet, for economic and other interests, they do have to cooperate with non-democratic states. To reconcile both demands often represents a dilemma, particularly with respect to booming countries such as China. The former chancellor Gerhard Schröder takes a stance which is as clear as it is controversial.