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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?
Not the US, but fascist billionaires.
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Well, the afd would not be pro-us with democrats in power.
Why don’t you say the same about China and Russia?
Because both countries have more of a authoritarian tradition. Their billionaires have been a lot less free. Whereas in the US, it is the other way around and billionaires are trying to determine the fate of the country.
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.
But they also wanted to notify other users than the one they were replying to. From my experience, you only get notified if someone directly replied to you.
I’m not blaming you or op, just jokingly wondering am I the only one who feels getting notified is rude
Idk, seems like those people mainly wants as much disruption as possible and just don’t care what exactly they are supporting with their vote.
They can’t read so it won’t have much of an effect on their votes
You would’ve thought that Trump getting a mugshot will deter voters. Yeah, go figure. Those cultists don’t have a mind of their own.
They produce scandals each day to get attention. Same as Musk, Trump, etc… At some point, the fans just don’t care anymore.
That, or distract, overwhelm. When we have 10 appalling things every single day, we lack the energy to connect the dots between the lesser ones. Or care. It’s both a flood and exposure therapy.
So…I guess these articles now have confirmed that USA Trump- RF Putin- CCP Jinpin- have their interests aligned and wish to undermine democracies.
And we’re too tired to even say told so
Ahh the wonderful communist who support… wait those are neo nazis and the others are just capitalists…
China is state-capitalist, my friend
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-china-lawsuits-musk-investigation-58b10ccace488784fcc63646ab78b410
Much communist
Hope of socialism
Wow
so far right came all the way around to communist
There’s never actually been large scale communism. The step where the autocratic takeover ends just doesn’t happen. So yeah, practiced communism is not just coming around to and touching fascism, they’re almost congruent.
Is this what she meant when she called Hitler a “communist”? Not like “ew, communists” but “oh yeah, communists, like the good folks in the CCP who gave me money”?
Where’s the communists in this equation
…China?
Communism as Marx intended:
State-capitalism is as close to communism as laissez-faire capitalism.
In fact yes. Marx was quite insisting that communism would only come about after an extensive period of capitalism and that mostly rural countries like his contemporary Russia could not leap-frog to communism. Later he back-tracked a bit, but never fully. But it basically just shows that his idea of economic and material determinism is quite silly and many of his contemporary anarchists also told him so, which he got extremely angry about.
No true politician would ever lie about what they represent
Calling yourself communist while doing capitalism doesn’t actually mean anything.
What about China?
Prime chancellor material!
Being a corrupt fuck seems to be the one common denominator for most of the German chancellors in the last 5 decades.
Pikachu got a stache
They are all owned by China or Russia. Even the ones you like. They play both sides so they always come out on top.
Is that dyed hair? She’s some fake Aryan and she doesn’t even have blue eyes.
What the hell is this disappointment?
She is literally a lesbian who is married to a Sri Lankan woman but is in a party that hates LGBTQIA+ people and immigrants. Don’t expect any integrity from that person.
Tbh, I think that complete inner contradiction and brokenness is what marks people like her.
I am not even European lol
Not talking about you but Hitler in the link.
I’ll check it out at some point
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I would suggest to stop spreading rumors like this until they are 100% provable. Reason: because they always lead to the accused getting more popular.
This is not rumors. Weidel admitted to have met the Chinese ambassador, she was on China’s payroll, and her close ties with China have long been known. All these ate facts. Just read the article (and other sources across the web).
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Update: @joelthelion@lemmy.world removed their comment. Too bad I didn’t qoute it. But to paraphrase it from my recollection it went: “what’s with this firstpost.com site? I’ve never heard of it before, is it trustworthy? I can’t find mentions of this story elsewhere”. To which I replied the following:
Same to both points. I don’t like how AfD, by all accounts a right wing neo fascist party, looks to be gaining mandates, but I don’t think that this specific attack on this specific person is reasonable.
I mean Weidel did spend years in China and speaks Mandarin. If she met with the Chinese ambassador on a regular basis, there could be a million reasons, and being a Chinese spy or getting resources from China for her party, are only two of them.
There are a lot of other reasons why Weidel and her party shouldn’t be in power, but as of now this specific reason isn’t one of them in my view.
Hi, your quote is fairly accurate.
I deleted my comment because I later found a few references to this Chinese stuff and didn’t feel like arguing about it. But basically, I agree with you. This stuff may or may not be innocuous, we can’t really know. But there are a zillion better other reasons to oppose AfD.
So this is not proof of anything on the part of Weidel, but: Maximilian Krah, the Afd MEP, was found to be furthering Chinese interests as well. Including having a Chinese-German employee who was thought to be a Chinese spy. The employee is gone now and Krah has reemerged and will be presumably be voted into Bundestag today.
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