Olaf Scholz backs China, ignores government warnings in Hamburg port deal, report says
www.politico.eu
Despite calls to scrap planned Chinese investment in Hamburg, the city’s ex-mayor wants it to go ahead.

An investigation by German regional public broadcasters reported Wednesday that Scholz’s chancellery is pushing to approve efforts by Chinese state-owned shipping giant Cosco to buy a foothold in a container port in Hamburg, ignoring warnings from six federal ministries, including the Greens’ Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, amid fears of risky economic over-dependence on Beijing.

  • @zaphod@feddit.deEnglish
    5•9 months ago

    In itself probably harmless, but the general trend is concerning. We need a common european strategy to reduce chinese influence. Too often in the EU individual members act too much in what they think is their own best interest without considering what’s best for the EU, forcing other members to do the same leaving everyone worse off than if they had all acted together.

    • @not_exactly@feddit.deEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Perhaps, but in this case OP could have shared an article that objectively analyses the general trend, rather than a year-old article that exaggerates a single decision.