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Jan 22 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
US administration sources make public via @sz that Llyod Austin had "fierce exchange of words" with head of chancellory @W_Schmidt_ & that Sullivan "read riot act" to Scholz' national security advisor Plötner for putting conditions on Leopard transfer.
sueddeutsche.de/politik/kampfp…
This sounds like a deliberate effort to undercut narrative "Scholz & Biden are fully aligned on support for 🇺🇦" & to make it clear that Biden administration expects Scholz to move on US terms rather than him setting conditions publicly (which surprised Austin on way to Berlin).
Chancellory issues categorical denial of US sourced @sz report on Austin & Sullivan talks with Schmidt & Plötner.
„Reports are inaccurate regarding both tone & substance“, @gebauerspon reports.
"I don't know of such a linking (Leopard & Abrams) and I have no knowledge of any disgruntlement as reported by @sz", new 🇩🇪defense minister Pistorius claims.
Says as "Leopard nation" Germany has special responsibility and will live up to this responsibility. #AnneWill

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Jan 21
Takes about Scholz being controlled by Kremlin kompromat & or Scholz hoping to please Putin in order to be first in line when business with 🇷🇺opens up again are multiplying here spread by accounts with lots of (partly serious) followers.
As much it is understandable that one disagrees with Scholz' assessment (I do, too) why fall for these takes? Scholz said why he is acting the way he is acting in taz interview last weekend. He (rightly) says "there's no absolute truth" in making difficult trade-offs about risk. Image
What Scholz has failed to do (not just in this particular case) on Leopard tanks is to clearly communicate his own truth on trade-offs. Relying on statements by unnamed senior officials to media on Abrams-Leopard link without giving reasons just backfires massively. Image
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Jan 20
Wonderful to to be able to host @HelenHet20 with @abinder1 at @GPPi to discuss politics of inflation and energy as part of series organized by Andrea’s FU Freigeist research group cooperation with @DezernatZ & GPPi.
A real privilege to host two true Freigeister last night. Image
Stay tuned for the conversation on key ideas we recorded prior to the event. Image
To learn more about Andrea‘s Freigeist research group and her new book

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Dec 21, 2022
Ever since I saw @Bkerrychina make an appearance in a @BBCStoryworks Huawei ad I thought "Why don't media look into and scandalize BBC selling itself to Chinese party state & its agents"? Glad that at final last @Jake_Kanter @DEADLINE got on the case.
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BBC Storyworks explicitly puts BBC credibility on the line by selling itself as "building on our century-long pedigree as world's most trusted storyteller".
Hard to think of more effective way to burn that trust than selling yourself to 🇨🇳 party state.
Per Royal Charter, BBC’s mission is to „act in public interest“ and "to reflect UK, its culture and values to the world“. Providing PR support to CGTN, propaganda agent of totalitarian system & Huawei (part and parcel of surveillance apparatus) is selling out these values.
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Dec 14, 2022
Problem mit Scholz' Rede bei Feierlichkeiten zu 70 Jahre Ostausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft ist nicht dieser medial selektiv vermittelte und dann von einigen eilfertig skandalisierte Abschnitt zu zukünftigen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit einem anderen 🇷🇺.
bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuel…
Problem ist fast komplette Abwesenheit von Kritik an Rolle des Ostausschuss, dessen Vertreter sich selbst gern als "Diplomaten der Wirtschaft" feiern und in dieser Rolle in den letzten 15 Jahren sehr viel getan haben, um deutsche Politik gegenüber🇷🇺 auf falschen Gleis zu halten.
Mehr als ein "Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine bedeutet, dass es ein „Weiter so!“ nicht geben kann. Damit muss sich auch und gerade der Ost-Ausschuss von alten Gewohnheiten verabschieden" bekommt Scholz nicht heraus. Das ist zu wenig als historische Aufarbeitung.
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Dec 2, 2022
By the end of this year, according to estimates 59% of 5G RAN in Germany (and 100% in Berlin) will be provided by Huawei.

This is an abysmal failure to protect critical infrastructure, going against key intentions of law Bundestag passed against Merkel’s Huawei open door policy.
A number of Bundestag lawmakers had warned Telekom et al against continuing to rely on Huawei. If government decided to classify RAN components as critical then this may mean that Huawei gear would no longer be allowed and would ultimate have to be replaced, at high cost. If.
But Telekom seems to have concluded that the government won’t act. For Germany to make running of key critical infrastructure dependent on company under heavy (and increasing) US sanctions is outright irresponsible government policy.
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Dec 1, 2022
Dass Entwurf für interne BMWK-Chinastrategie über Barkassen-Postille Weg in Öffentlichkeit gefunden hat, ist mißlich. Selektiv medial vermittelte Leaks steigern nur international Unklarheit über chinapolitischen Kurs.
Mein Kommentar für @Tagesspiegel
tagesspiegel.de/politik/kein-h…
Das BMWK-Papier bietet (nachdem was bekannt ist) im Kern eine sehr realistische Bestandsaufnahme der Herausforderung China und skizziert klare Handlungsoptionen.
Daraus Kontrast zur AA-Strategie herzuleiten ist arg gekünstelt. Papier ist als interne Strategie gedacht. Botschaften sehr ähnlich. In einem internen Papier kann man die Dinge klarer ansprechen. Eine öffentliche Strategie muss nicht an allen Stellen so hart im Ton sein.
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