💬 Opinion Sep 15, 2026 · Peer Illner

Germany’s China Shock Will Push Voters Right

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Germany’s China Shock Will Push Voters Right
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The German political establishment’s so-called firewall against the far right is crumbling. This month, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) secured 44 percent of the vote in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, and the party is now polling at 37 percent in the upcoming vote in nearby Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Those alarmed by the AfD’s rise in the former East might take comfort in the fact that the party currently polls at roughly half those levels in the country’s wes

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