The songwriter Wolf Biermann follows an invitation by the East Berlin embassy of the People’s Republic of China to the Chinese national holiday. According to a report by the GDR State Security, which is holding him under surveillance, Biermann asks, after two films have been screened: "How does the Chinese state react when it is criticised?" He received the answer that the state did not need to intervene in the case of criticism, as the people themselves would take care of that.
