Political affairs: All-clear: German powerful men too unsexy for spies

T he week's winner is Andy Byron. You remember: the tech CEO who had to resign after a Coldplay concert. Not exactly because of Coldplay - even if taste boundaries may have been exceeded here. But because he was hugging a woman there who was not “his” wife. The kiss cam captured the scene, including the pitiful attempt at hiding, and provided perfect meme material.

But in the future, the world will no longer think of Byron's moment of shame when they hear the search terms "CEO" and "affair." Now there is Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, the Chinese spy and the so-called honey trap. Has Huang already promised his wife at home that this will never happen again?

The audience loves such affairs, seasoned with a pinch of spy thrillers. In the taz cover section, people were already feverishly thinking about headlines like “AI – Coitus Interruptus”. It was only rejected because it remained unclear whether coitus should actually be written with C.

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But the all-clear for Germany's elite men: In this country, no one has to be afraid of an intriguing love affair. The Chinese leadership is hardly interested in Germany, which has been left behind economically and technologically. And who should spies seriously flirt with?

With Friedrich Merz? Who gives his wife Charlotte and their adult children four Thermomixes for Christmas and prefers to celebrate his birthday with family at an Italian restaurant instead of traveling to the World Climate Conference in Turkey?

Or with Mercedes and Volkswagen managers who have little to counter the Chinese competition in electric cars anyway? At least there are no unpleasant encounters on a park bench in Wolfsburg or near the Stuttgart 21 construction site.

And who would want to have a fling with an East German AfD mayor just so he could approve Chinese solar panels on municipal land? So if women fall for them at all, then Germany's men can at least be sure that they are doing so freely. This week Carsten Maschmeyer (67) was seen hand in hand with model Anouchka Lou (30). This must be true love.