Editing Ostpolitik (section)

==Policies similar to Ostpolitik==
=== Pre-WW2 diplomacy ===
German states ([[Prussia]] and [[Saxony]] as well as unified Germany) have long faced the issues of co-existing with their eastern neighbours, whatever the differences in culture, beliefs and outlook.

[[Otto von Bismarck | Bismarck]]'s complex foreign-policy balances included the 1887 [[Reinsurance Treaty]] with the [[German Empire]]'s eastern neighbour, the [[Russian Empire]].

[[Weimar Germany]] broke out of a degree of diplomatic isolation by signing the [[Treaty of Rapallo (1922) |Treaty of Rapallo]] with [[RSFSR|Soviet Russia]] in 1922.

The [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]] of 1939 defied ideological differences and established trade and geopolitical agreements between [[Nazi Germany]] and the Soviet Union.

===Vatican diplomacy===
''Ostpolitik'' is also the name given to the policies of [[Pope Paul VI]] (in office: 1963-1978) towards the Soviet Union and its [[Eastern Bloc|Eastern European satellite states]]. Trying to improve the condition of Christians in general and [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] in particular behind the Iron Curtain, he engaged in dialogue with Communist authorities at several levels, receiving Foreign Minister [[Andrei Gromyko]] and USSR head of state [[Nikolai Podgorny]] in 1966 and 1967 in the [[Vatican City|Vatican]]. The situation of the Church in [[People's Republic of Poland|Poland]], [[People's Republic of Hungary|Hungary]] and [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]] improved somewhat during his pontificate.<ref>
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=== South Korea ===
[[South Korea]]'s 1980s policy of ''[[Nordpolitik]]'' was named in allusion to ''Ostpolitik''.

A similar concept is [[Sunshine Policy]], which is the main North Korea policies of the [[Democratic Party (South Korea, 2015)|Democratic Party of Korea]].