The far-right populist Alternative for Germany party rejects a values-based foreign policy, just as much as it rejects NATO and the US. That approach has attracted the attention of Beijing.
That’s all fair, but framing the sequence of events as entirely unilateral action by the AfD is just as slanted as the article, and we’re better than that.
It is almost entirely unilateral action by AfD though.
A better article would make AfD look even more perverse by highlighting a key plant of Xi Jinping thought is “ecological civilisation”, that China invests heavily in renewables and is building a $1 billion factory in Hungary (from memory) to gain more European green market share.
It could also seek comment from Chinese officials, or even AfD (I didn’t see that but might have missed it?)
I mean… It’s not like there’s not a standing invitation for Germany’s current government. Is building diplomatic ties not permissible if the party isn’t currently in power?
Better fucking tell the Republicans to get out of Canadian politics, then.
Let’s lay out the events:
Headline: “China courts Germany’s far right populist AfD”
Probably a key piece of context is that they were invited
There’s no information about that, so presumably given the slant of the article it was an innocuous invitation.
I have tried to find any other references but haven’t.
It is not unusual for members of parliament to be invited to other countries, so information needed would include:
China would deal with AfD just like they deal with left, right, far right and theocratic governments and absolute monarchies all over the world.
That’s all fair, but framing the sequence of events as entirely unilateral action by the AfD is just as slanted as the article, and we’re better than that.
It is almost entirely unilateral action by AfD though.
A better article would make AfD look even more perverse by highlighting a key plant of Xi Jinping thought is “ecological civilisation”, that China invests heavily in renewables and is building a $1 billion factory in Hungary (from memory) to gain more European green market share.
It could also seek comment from Chinese officials, or even AfD (I didn’t see that but might have missed it?)
I mean… It’s not like there’s not a standing invitation for Germany’s current government. Is building diplomatic ties not permissible if the party isn’t currently in power?
Better fucking tell the Republicans to get out of Canadian politics, then.