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  • pasdechance@jlai.lu
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    10 days ago

    Of course they do. Right wing journalists are running out of kleenex here in France. Between blaming the left and labelling this a “pre-civil war” it is starting to sound like someone just translated Trump into French, their wrists must be so sore.

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    10 days ago

    Yes, and we must again say that the European far-right is highly aligned with Trump’s US, Russia, and China.

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        10 days ago

        Alice Weidel, the head of Germany’s far-right AfD who lived in China for six years, has close ties to China. Not long ago she admitted to frequently met Wu Keng, who was China’s ambassador to Germany from 2019 to 2024. When the meeting became public, Weidel said that after Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, she wanted to get “an idea of the Chinese position”. These meetings were not included in her calendar and were supposed to remain secret. It is unclear whether or not they still take place.

        Just last year ago, an aide of Germany’s far-right AfD politician Maximilian Krah was convicted of spying for China.

        These are two examples. There are many more with extremist groups of both sides. As one report wrote not long ago, it is a Marriage of Convenience: How the European Far Right and Far Left Converged on China,

        Both extremes of Europe’s political spectrum are finding common ground in their alignments with China, raising concerns about foreign influence.