The German elections as seen from China, with Kristin Shi-Kupfer

The elections to the German Bundestag held on February 23 were closely followed in China. In this episode Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Professor of Sinology at the University of Trier and Senior Associate Fellow at MERICS, provides insight into online debates surrounding the elections. In this conversation with Claudia Wessling, Director Communications and Publications at MERICS, Kristin talks about how Alice Weidel and Friedrich Merz are seen in those debates and how netizens view Germany's role in the transatlantic relationship and its relationship with China.

This episode of the MERICS China Podcast is part of the China Spektrum project funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in which MERICS and the China Institute of the University of Trier (CIUT) are involved.

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