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.

  • KptnAutismus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    but when has privatizing public infrastructure ever gone well, especially under foreign leadership?

    • Borpster@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      I don’t know, I’m not condoning the move. But either way it’s already owned by a private company (and I’m also not sure if it can be considered public infrastructure)

      • KptnAutismus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        yeah, didn’t really think about the definition of “public” at time of commenting. still, selling off any piece of infrastructure to china is just plain dumb.