Economics
Look Who's Picking Up the Tab for Karl Marx's Birthday Bash
- German town fetes ‘Kapital’ author with China-funded statue
- Xi seeks to restore the ‘theoretical soul’ of Chinese people
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Karl Marx’s home town is holding a party for the Communist Manifesto author’s bicentenary, and China is paying for the birthday gift.
Trier, in western Germany, is bracing for big crowds for the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth this weekend, with political speeches, competing demonstrations and the unveiling of a statue designed and funded by China. The extent of the outside interest has surprised the sleepy city on the Moselle river.