BEIJING Cheap College Jerseys , Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Traditional powerhouse Jiangsu edged Beijing 124-122 on the road to extend the winning streak to five games in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) league on Sunday.
Jiangsu started the game well thanks to the scoring from Marshon Brooks and local center Li Yuanyu.
The visitors carried a lead of 13 points into the last period, only to see Beijing cut it to four with less than one minute left. However, the Jiangsu cagers were strong from the freethrow line to secure the victory.
Guard Brooks had a game-best 39 points and Miroslav Radulica added 23 points and eight rebounds for Jiangsu, while Beijing Aaron Jackson made 25 points and Zhai Xiaochuan had 26 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.
Another title-contender Liaoning harvested an easy victory by overwhelming Sichuan 123-91. Sichuan, who won the CBA title in 2016 Cheap Sports Jerseys , swallowed the 12th straight loss.
Jiangsu moved up to the second place on the rankings, while Liaoning stood on the third.
In the Guangdong derby, Guangdong outscored Shenzhen 126-111. Former NBA forward Yi Jianlian had 24 points and 16 rebounds.
In other games on Sunday, Shanxi defeated Shandong 128-114, Guangzhou edged Shanghai 118-114, Qingdao breezed past Tianjin 126-111.
By Ren Ke
BERLIN Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping , Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Although the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) has for the first time been elected into the German parliament on Sunday, experts believed that the party puts limited threat to established system and its influence in the future is restricted.
As expected as the pre-election polling results, preliminary exit poll showed the AfD got 13.5 percent of votes in the German federal election, crossing the 5-percent-vote hurdle and making it the first far-right party in the Bundestag, or the Federal Parliament, since World War II.
It has also become the third largest party in the Bundestag following Angela Merkel's CDUCSU bloc and the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Founded in 2013 and winning 4.7 percent votes in the last German federal election Cheap Jerseys Wholesale , the AfD gained momentum during the euro crisis and the refugee crisis. After an intra-party struggle in 2015, it shifted farther right from a conservative party focusing on economic issues to a far-right national conservative populist one.
But many experts believed that the party's influence should not be overestimated.
Prof. Dr. Paul Nolte, a historian with Free University Berlin, said as SPD said they will not form another grand coalition government with the CDUCSU bloc, the AfD will not become the largest opposition party, so that their influence in the Bundestag will be restricted.
Prof. Dr. Hajo Funke Cheap Jerseys From China , a political scientist with Free University Berlin focusing on right-wing extremism, told Xinhua that although the AfD is popular to a small degree in the public, but most others have realized that it is a dangerous right-wing party.
Although it has entered the Bundestag, none of the parties in the federal parliament, no matter the small parties or the country's two major parties, ruled out cooperation with the AfD in any form Cheap Jerseys China , possibly making it a lonely marginal man in the Bundestag.
Funke also doubted that the AfD would be stronger in the future, as the party has lost the flexibility.
"Right-wing parties like the FPOE in Austria, they say something very radical but act more like centrists. But when it comes to AfD, its leading structure has decided to be right-wing radical, which has limited their influence," said Funke.
AfD leaders always draw fierce criticisms with their radical remarks that often cross the bottom lines of German politics. In his election campaign Cheap Jerseys , Alexander Gauland, one of the party's two candidates, said Germans should be proud of the "achievements" that German soldiers made in the two world wars.
The remark followed his racist one saying that Aydan Oezoguz, German government's commissioner for integration with Turkish origin, should be "disposed of" in Turkey, drawing wide accusations by most of German leading politicians.
"People can protest against refugee or Euro crises Cheap NCAA College Jerseys , but they will not need a party which will endanger a stable democracy," according to Funke.
Nolte told Xinhua that the AfD's popularity may imply a return of far-right populism in Germany, but only to a very limited degree compared to other countries.
As the United States, the populist Donald Trump was elected president and in France the far-right populist Front National led by Marine Le Pen won 20 to 30 percent support, Nolte believed that in this sense German politics have become more "normal" in the western pattern of politics.
Observers believed that in a time with great challenges and doubts about the previous courses of major projects like European integration, and a lot of social uncertainty and insecurity of future Cheap Sports NCAA Jerseys , populism has its deep-seated roots that need politicians and the whole society to address.
Furthermore, it will find that the party politics is totally different from election campaign events, which will be a challenge for the AfD. And according to their roles in some state parliaments, AfD deputies were not strong to political initiatives or working in committees, so that the party will not make any immediate impacts in the bundestag.
The AfD has also raised concerns in a country that far-right populism often reminds people of the Nazi history that had brought great miseries over seven decades ago. However, experts believed that such association was totally wrong.
"The current Germany is not the Weimar Republic Cheap NCAA Jerseys Free Shipping , nor the AfD is the Nazi," said Nolte. "Germany is a stable democracy focusing on centrist and middle. There is no possibility to repeat the history at all."