{"id":63586,"date":"2024-04-24T22:45:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/24\/afd-candidate-maximilian-krah-will-still-run-in-european-elections-despite-adviser-arrest-for-spying"},"modified":"2024-04-24T22:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:45:30","slug":"afd-politician-to-run-in-european-elections-despite-aides-alleged-spying-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63586","title":{"rendered":"AfD politician to run in European elections despite aide\u2019s alleged spying for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maximilian Krah will remain German far-right party\u2019s top choice despite accusations against Jian Guo<\/p>\n<p>A far-right German politician has said he will continue to run for the upcoming European parliamentary elections despite allegations that his adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/23\/afd-politician-employee-arrested-germany-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-china\">was spying for the Chinese government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maximilian Krah, who is the lead contender for the Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) party, told journalists in Berlin: \u201cI am and will remain the main candidate\u201d after an emergency meeting with party bosses on Wednesday morning after the allegations came to light.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/24\/afd-candidate-maximilian-krah-will-still-run-in-european-elections-despite-adviser-arrest-for-spying\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maximilian Krah will remain German far-right party\u2019s top choice despite accusations against Jian GuoA far-right German politician has said he will continue to run for the upcoming European parliamentary elections despite allegations that his adviser wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,221,533,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-germany","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63587,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586\/revisions\/63587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}