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Weidel admitted meeting Wu but said she met him once in months. As for their discussions, Weidel said that she sought an understanding of China’s position on Germany.
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The damning findings come days ahead of German parliamentary elections in which AfD has rattled mainstream politicians. As per latest opinion polls, the party stands second in popularity and way ahead of incumbent SPD. While AfD’s links to the neo-Nazi movement have led to widespread concerns and contributed to its ostracisation by German parties, the links to China have led to fresh concerns whether a top contender for German chancellorship has been groomed by China.
The findings are all the more damning as European far-right has long been supported by Russia and China is Russia’s principal ally. The AfD is so extremist that even French far-right party, National Rally (RN), broke ties with it in the European Union (EU) elections last year. Moreover, AfD has previously been charged with spying for China and such allegations contributed to the RN-AfD split.
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AfD leader Alice Weidel’s long relationship to China
In light of revealation of Weidel’s secret meetings with the top Chinese diplomat in Germany, fresh attention has come on her long relationship with China that goes back to decades. It is bound to be explored whether she has been groomed by China to do the Communist Party’s bidding in Germany and Europe.
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As an economist, Weidel worked for the state-owned Bank of China and lived in China for six years. It has been reported that she was on scholarship during those years. Her doctoral thesis was also written on Chinese pension system.
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In China, Weidel worked at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
While Weidel today leads a party linked to neo-Nazis, her grandparents were members of the Nazi Party. Her grandfather, Hans Weidel, was a prominent Nazi judge who persecuted political opponents of the Nazi regime. He was appointed by Adolf Hitler himself.
And again, a bunch of traitors waving the banner of patriotism. It’s as pathetic as it is predictable.
Seriously. Apparently this needs to be taught in kindergarten. How many times has this happened in recent history now…
Thanks to every major party having made austerity some kind of state religion, the axe has been taken to the entire education system numerous times in the past 5 decades. Also, the famed post WW2 denazification, especially in the administration, has been largely a sad joke. Coincidentally one of the more radical prominent figures in the AfD, a certain Mr Höcke, who, by court verdict, can be legally called a fascist, is a history teacher of all Things.
“All the enemies of the Constitution borrow the name and language of patriotism to spread error, discord and false principles… It is thus that public opinion is excited and becomes disorganized; the general will becomes powerless and invalid and patriotism… sometimes seconds, through blind impetuosity, the evil projects of the enemies of our freedom.” -MR
So AfD is supported by China, russia and the US? Which major countries do we have left outside the EU to help fight fascist bullshit?
Spies need to be kicked out of the country and organizations set up by them have to be banned.
How damaging is this likely to be for them? A corruption scandal two days before an election seems like it ought to hurt, and I would assume as an outsider that AfD voters are not exactly pro-China
Their voters live in a different reality by now. Likely it won’t be damaging at all.
Yeah, and let us not forget that many of their voters receive their ‘information’ exclusively from social media, and here primarily from Tiktok and Xitter. The algorithms likely don’t show them anything bad of China, Russia, AfD, …
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That’s exactly what I meant by “different reality”. They are spoon fed their “news” and “information” by US and Chinese disinformation platforms AKA “social media”. And by German papers and TV cannels owned by the Axel Springer Corporation, which is pretty much the German equivalent to Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate.
You don’t have to mention people when replying to them. They’ll get a notification automatically.
They produce scandals each day to get attention. Same as Musk, Trump, etc… At some point, the fans just don’t care anymore.
It is very funny that “Literally Neo-Nazi” isn’t disqualifying in any respect but “Doctoral study of the Chinese pension system” is what puts your head on the chopping block.
Also, now might be an important time to mention that De-Nazification was a myth. Nazis were quickly reincorporated into the bureaucracy on both sides of the Iron Curtain (Allen Dulles’s CIA loved German defectors almost as much as Wilhelm Pieck’s Stasi).
The PhD was already public knowledge and is therefore clearly not the issue here.
Sure. The “China” appears to be what has people upset. Had she been working for JP Morgan Chase and taking private meetings with Jamie Diamon, the AfD voting base wouldn’t care.
What should seemingly be disqualifying is being a Nazi. But if she’s working with Chinese bureaucrats on an economic plan, I suspect the response she’ll get is “Oh no! She’s going to let more Chinese workers into the country to steal our jobs!”
Basically the same reactionary response American fascists had to Vivek’s Urkele rant.
You clearly have misunderstood the whole thing here.
So…I guess these articles now have confirmed that USA Trump- RF Putin- CCP Jinpin- have their interests aligned and wish to undermine democracies.
