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US-BACKED Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong has been rebuffed by Germany after writing an anti-communist open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel urging her to reconsider relations with China.
The founder of the Demosisto political party, which is bankrolled by the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an organisation that seeks to promote regime change around the world, appealed to Ms Merkel ahead of her three-day trip to Beijing.
He wrote: “Chancellor Merkel, you grew up in the GDR [German Democratic Republic]. You have first-hand experience of the terrors of a dictatorial government,” a reference to the former GDR’s communist government.
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
The decision highlights the tension between freedom of expression and the state’s role in shaping historical memory at former concentration camps, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ