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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 16 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


AfD co-leader Alice Weidel and her Bundestag federal parliamentary colleagues, Petr Bystron and Peter Felser, spent almost a week in Beijing and Shanghai at the end of June.

Upon their return, Felser told DW that he supposed it was his party's good results in the German polls which had sparked the interest of the Chinese.

She spent six years living there on a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship and completed her doctorate on the Chinese pension system, before moving on to work for Goldman Sachs.

Geopolitically, said Schroeder, the AfD sees the traditional Western ties with the United States, which it regards as hegemonic, as having past their use-by date.

The member of the European Parliament from Saxony, who aligns himself with the right-wing side of his party, has attracted attention in the past for multiple pro-China statements.

For example: The party has opposed the use of components from the Chinese communications equipment supplier Huawei in the expansion of 5G mobile internet services in Germany.


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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (87 children)

It’s already a hexbear fest in here. There is zero point posting anything about China or Russia - every comment is trounced on by hexbears.

Yes yes, if I didn’t want your opinion I should have stayed on Reddit.

Yes, yes, you got here first.

Yes, yes, I’m a brainwashed liberal.

Yes, yes, you’re actually one of the oldest Lemmy communities but you’ve only recently started federating.

Yes, yes, you’re seeing the light and can see through the western media’s bias and the rest of us are just mindless sheep.

Yes, yes, China is great, Russia is fantastic, Ukraine should pursue for peace and roll over.

Yes, yes, you never allowed downvoting so you’re used to just comment and that’s why there’s so many hexbears in here. And you’re definitely not Russian or CCP farmed trolls.

Yes, yes, all those things are true.

I’m sure I’m missing a few, but I’m pretty close to a hexbear “Bingo!” I think.

[–] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Simultaneously a bot farm and separated from any wider instances until very recently.

Do you honestly believe that?

Does it really make sense to you that China sets up self contained bot farms interacting with no one?

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[–] eatmyass@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Hey, I don’t have anything new to say, just want to join the pile-on. Sorry you can’t have your liberal echo chamber, and sorry that most of the world actually prefers China to the great satan and its western demons. If you didn’t want to be ridiculed for your insane opinions though you really shouldn’t be federated with the real world though

[–] conductor@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

It’s already a hexbear fest in here. There is zero point posting anything about China or Russia - every comment is trounced on by hexbears

Lmaooo go cry about it I guess

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[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surprise surprise, fascists working with fascists.

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[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (26 children)
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[–] Sinister@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The AFD might be pro-russia, but they are definitely not pro-china lol. Maybe China thinks they can buy them? Anyways this is just the consequence of the Anarcho-Bidenization of the German Left.

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