The far-right populist Alternative for Germany party rejects a values-based foreign policy, just as much as it rejects NATO and the US. That approach has attracted the attention of Beijing.
oh that answers the question then I'm sure theres absolutely no ambiguity in the term "officials" the article doesn't even say if they're government officials or business officials or sports officials
edit: it doesn't even call them "Chinese officials" it just says that the party "traveled to China — on an official invitation" wtf does that mean it could mean a lot of things and we still have no idea who sent the official invitation