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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz backs China, ignores government warnings in Hamburg port deal, report says

www.politico.eu Olaf Scholz backs China, ignores government warnings in Hamburg port deal, report says

Despite calls to scrap planned Chinese investment in Hamburg, the city’s ex-mayor wants it to go ahead.

Olaf Scholz backs China, ignores government warnings in Hamburg port deal, report says

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.

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