The AfD’s unusual China connection
The AfD’s unusual China connection
The AfD’s unusual China connection
There are many things that make Alice Weidel an unconventional leader for a German political party on the hard right. Though her marriage to a Sri Lankan-born woman draws most attention, many in government and business circles are equally intrigued by the time she spent in China before entering politics. Ms Weidel lived there for about six years from around 2006, and learned to speak Mandarin before moving home and joining the Alternative for Germany (afd) party in 2013.
She started out in China on a German government scholarship and stayed to write a doctoral thesis on its pension system, entitled “Reform options from a regulatory-theory perspective to increase risk resistance”. Even more unusually for a German politician, she is also reported to have worked for the state-owned Bank of China. And, though there are few public details about what exactly she did in that job, she has said that she learned much from her experience in China and wants to improve bilateral ties.
I got to know about this only from this article (I send Wikipedia's take on the info, since it is more accurate):
She represents so well many far-right voters who simply vote against themselves, thinking that they are “special” and even if they do the same things they despise, they will be spared from the prosecution.
There are two types of right wingers; the ones that are too stupid or too lazy to understand what they are doing; And the ones that know EXACTLY what they are doing.
The latter ones are the kinds of Weidel, Spahn, Thiel, etc.