US Vice President ‘End Germany’s Far-Right Isolation’ Lee Jae-myung ‘Trump’s China Hostile Tariffs to End Short-Term’
On the same day that the Trump administration’s Vice President gave a speech in support of the German far-right party in Germany declaring an ‘end to isolation’, Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung showed off his pro-Trump foreign policy to the US media by saying, ‘Japan is a neighboring democracy’, ‘Japan apologizes like Germany’, and ‘Trump’s China hostility and tariffs to end short-term.’
US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech on the 14th urging European leaders to end the isolation of far-right parties across the European continent, and a few days later, he gave a speech to clear the name of the far-right party AfD in the German election.
The New York Times reported on the 14th, “The vice president pointed to the German delegation and told them to drop their opposition to working with a party that has often used banned Nazi slogans and has been ostracized by the government as a result.” “He did not mention the Alternative for Germany (AfD) by name, but he directly mentioned the long-standing agreement among mainstream German politicians to freeze parts of the group, which is officially classified as extremist by the German intelligence service.”
The vice president met with Alice Weidel, a candidate for chancellor in Germany’s election this month, and other German leaders to deliver a message of “ending the isolation of the far right in Europe,” and the NYT said, “It was a remarkable intervention in the domestic politics of the United States, a democratic ally.”
President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that day, calling it “a very good speech,” and “I heard him speak, and he talked about freedom of the press.” The remarks broadcast that day were <President Donald Trump praised Vice President JD's remarks at the Munich Security Conference Friday about freedom of speech in Europe. "Europe has to be careful.">.
On that day, Representative Lee told the Washington Post, "Japan is a democracy like Korea," and regarding the 'forced labor issue,' "This is a problem that Japan must solve like Germany," and "Germany has seriously reflected, but Japan has not properly acknowledged its mistakes during the colonial period."
Representative Lee continued, "It is still important for Korea to strengthen its security alliance with the United States and cooperate with both the United States and Japan," and "Strengthening the trilateral relationship between Korea, the United States, and Japan is the right thing to do," and "The United States does not need to worry excessively or unnecessarily about the Korea-US alliance," and announced the 'normalization of Korea-Japan relations.
On the Trump administration's offensive against China, Representative Lee said, "The United States will not insist on a hostile or cooperative stance toward China," and "Korea should also take this approach," revealing Trump's strategic cooperation toward China.
The representative said, “Considering the issue of rising prices in the US, it seems difficult for the US to maintain this policy,” regarding the ‘tariff war’ strengthened by President Trump, and stated, “Trump’s tariffs will end soon’ based on an optimistic diagnosis.”
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The AP stated, “In the early days of its founding in 2013, the ‘Professors’ Party’ already had a strong right-wing, anti-establishment identity,” and “AfD has become more radical and its leaders have changed continuously, and the German domestic intelligence agency is monitoring the party on suspicion of right-wing extremism, and AfD branches in three eastern states have been designated as ‘verified right-wing extremist’ groups,” on the 14th.
Wolfgang Schröder, a political science professor at the Berlin Center for Social Sciences, said the AfD was “a uniquely Internet party that could capture issues that other parties don’t address with this clarity, this intensity, this radicalism and emotionality, and from the beginning it has used the emotional power of the Internet to communicate better than all the other German parties combined,” Schröder said.
“That helped it gain traction among young voters in recent state elections. At a time when trust in politicians is low, the party portrays itself as an anti-establishment force, sometimes even dismissing the ‘old parties’ as ‘cartels,’” he told the AP.
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In a speech at the Munich Security Conference, which was broadcast live on YouTube, Vance continued his aggressive rhetoric to European security officials and diplomats, telling them that “the biggest security threat is not China or Russia, but the ‘enemy within,’” and that “their (diplomatic and bureaucratic) repression of abortion protests and other forms of free speech.”
The New York Times said, “He made this claim at a time when Russia is waging its largest ground war in Europe since 1945 over Ukraine,” and that it “reflects the Trump administration’s priority of expanding the MAGA movement rather than stopping Russian President Putin’s aggression.”
The Times continued, “Vance’s remarks echo those of hard-right leaders across Europe and reflect the anti-establishment messaging that Russia has been spreading on social media to destabilize democratic politics in the United States and Europe.”
Before Vance’s support for the far right, billionaire Elon Musk, a top adviser to Trump, supported the AfD in a social media post late last year and then publicly interviewed Weidel, who is running for the presidency as the leader of the far-right party. In January, Musk gave a speech to far-right members of Germany, saying that the country was “too focused on past guilt.”
The New York Times said of this, “It was a clear indication that Hitler’s long shadow was dominating mainstream German politics, including the strict legal restrictions on Nazi language.” In his speech that afternoon, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, a member of the ruling Social Democratic Party who attended the security conference, said, “If I understand him correctly, he is comparing parts of Europe to authoritarian regimes.
This is unacceptable,” and continued to say, amid continued applause, “Where I live is neither Europe nor democracy.” “This is what we have to do,” said Thomas Silberhorn, a member of the German parliament for the Christian Social Union, the Christian Democratic Union’s Bavarian sister party, in a speech titled “Anti-American Manifesto in the Trump Regime.”
In a panel discussion hosted by the American-German Council and global accounting firm KPMG, Jana Puglierin, a senior policy researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, said Trump could build a new European-American alliance among parties that share core values, such as opposition to immigration and an “anti-woke” attitude in unregulated social media rhetoric, as part of the “far-right US-European Alliance Building Strategy” under Trump.
In his speech that day, Vice President Vance said, “If you run in fear of your constituents, there is nothing the United States can do for you,” referring to the “system of active support for far-right candidates.”
The NYT article summarized his far-right political movements in Europe as an incitement speech under the title, “Vance Tells Europeans Not to Avoid Parties Considered Extreme.”
In the interview with Representative Lee of WP, “South Korea’s Next Powerful Leader Wants Warmer Relations with China and North Korea,” Representative Lee repeatedly emphasized his statement, “I hope that within this year, there will be a situation where President Trump is officially recommended as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Representative Lee’s “recommendation for Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize” was preceded by the official announcement of a “recommendation” for “Ukraine peace talks” at the Supreme Council last year, and then in late January, when the offensive to deport illegal immigrants was in full swing, Representative Park Sun-won, a close aide to President Lee, registered his nomination as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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