
China lays claim to the de facto independent Taiwan. People in Taipei are worried that Donald Trump will allow himself to be harnessed to Beijing's interests at the summit with ruler Xi Jinping.
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China lays claim to the de facto independent Taiwan. The people of Taipei fear that their interests will be neglected by the USA.
Summit in Washington Xi wants to talk to Trump about Taiwan. Those who don't have a say are the Taiwanese
China lays claim to the de facto independent Taiwan. People in Taipei are worried that Donald Trump will allow himself to be harnessed to Beijing's interests at the summit with ruler Xi Jinping.
By Cornelius Dieckmann, Taipei

Friedrich Merz admits that the CDU is only partially a people's party, while Alice Weidel from the AfD claims that she has replaced the CDU as a people's party. Political scientist Aiko Wagner explains that a people's party is characterized by its breadth, size, duration and social roots. The AfD is on the way there, but still lacks a stable membership base and frontline organizations. In many European countries, popular parties have lost their importance due to changing social realities.
Despite a court order restoring press access, the Secret Service again denied access to the White House and confiscated press credentials to reporters from Politico, CNN and MS NOW.
In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the CDU failed to pass the five percent hurdle for the first time with 4.9 percent. The party lost massive amounts of votes to the AfD and SPD and will no longer be represented in the state parliament in Schwerin.
An AfD politician from Buchholz in Nordheide counted votes as an election worker despite her own candidacy for the district council, city council and local council. A councilor has lodged an objection against the election of the city council and the Trelde local council and is planning further objections against the district council election and the mayoral runoff election. The state election management sees a violation of protective regulations, but no influence on the election result.
After its victory in the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the AfD wants to fill the office of state parliament president. The SPD has already rejected this. In the district council of the Mecklenburg Lake District, the appointment of the district council president's office is controversial: the CDUplus faction wants Thomas Diener to be recalled after he switched from the CDU to the AfD faction and then left the factions. Diener criticizes his former party and leaves open the possibility of joining the AfD. The next district council meeting will take place on October 5th.

The Helmholtz Center Cispa and its founding director Michael Backes are ending their collaboration after a special audit. This revealed significant security deficiencies and critical collaborations with Chinese military universities.