TRIER, Germany -- The German city where Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818, is bracing for an onslaught of tourists from nominally-communist China as the 200th anniversary of his birth approaches.
Vineyard-surrounded Trier, home to 110,000 people, has recently found itself in the national spotlight after the Chinese government offered to erect a statue of Marx, a key thinker in the development of modern communism, as a gift for the anniversary.
