Germany's AfD's far-right leader Alice Weidel held secret meetings with Chinese envoy, it has also emerged that she was on China’s payroll for several years
Germany's AfD's far-right leader Alice Weidel held secret meetings with Chinese envoy, it has also emerged that she was on China’s payroll for several years
Alice Weidel, the leader of German far-right party AfD, held secret meetings with Chinese envoy to Germany for years. It has also emerged that she was on China’s payroll for several years.
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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.
The neo-Nazi Weidel is a CCP asset and her family tree is filled with the brown shirt fuckers.
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.
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
Ahh the wonderful communist who support.... wait those are neo nazis and the others are just capitalists...
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-china-lawsuits-musk-investigation-58b10ccace488784fcc63646ab78b410
Much communist
Hope of socialism
Wow
Spies need to be kicked out of the country and organizations set up by them have to be banned.
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"?
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
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.
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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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
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).
You clearly have misunderstood the whole thing here.
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
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