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China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD (www.dw.com)

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[-] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

“They're obviously courting them. Because the far-right wants to cooperate with Xi more than any other mainstream party."

so you're just operating under a set of assumptions that you came up with based on nothing.

[-] Bernie2028@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Why else would the Chinese meet with a runner-up party? The article clearly says AfD is hoping for stronger connections with China. This is just another case of fascists working with fascists.

They're already having each others' back, the nazi bitch with CCP connections is straight up defending China:

[AfD co-leader] Weidel herself knows the People's Republic of China very well. She spent six years living there on a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship and completed her doctorate on the Chinese pension system

She has also ridiculed German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock's criticism of the human rights situation in China.

"God help us: Baerbock is on a new mission in #China. She wants to emphasize the 'shared European conviction.' This already fails because it is not only #France which does not share this conviction..."

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Please explain what by criteria China are fascist

[-] Bernie2028@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago

"Blood and soil" nationalism, Han chinese supremacy, xenophobia and some of the most closed borders in the world, repression of minorities and political dissidents, etc. etc. etc. etc.