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.
Clickbait headline. It doesn’t mention who they mean when they say “China”. Is it a high ranking official? Some nobody entrepreneur? It also doesn’t say anything about why they might be “court[ing]” the AfD. It’s really more about populists doing what populists do and aligning along nationalist lines to the benefit of the national bourgeoisie and the detriment of the American empire. They’re right that disintegration with China would be a disaster.
Clickbait headline. It doesn’t mention who they mean when they say “China”. Is it a high ranking official? Some nobody entrepreneur? It also doesn’t say anything about why they might be “court[ing]” the AfD. It’s really more about populists doing what populists do and aligning along nationalist lines to the benefit of the national bourgeoisie and the detriment of the American empire. They’re right that disintegration with China would be a disaster.