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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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[โ€“] Banik2008@infosec.pub 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

First they decide to get all their gas exclusively from Russia, which, as it happens, turned out not to be such a great idea. Now they want to sell their biggest port to China.

It seems that Germans just never learn.

[โ€“] Chup@feddit.de 28 points 1 year ago

That is just a big fat lie.

Russia supplied about half the natural gas in 2021 and from 2022 on it went to zero anyways. Why would you make up such crap that everyone can just Google that it's a lie?

[โ€“] barttier@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We didn't agree. He is elected and we can't do anything about it. Trust me, most of us aren't happy about that decision. We try to get rid of him in the next election. Selling tax payed public stuff to our disadvantage sadly has tradition in Germany (telephone lines, railroad)

[โ€“] Muetzenman@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Railroad is still 100% Bund owned.

[โ€“] barttier@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but for profit. Since Die Bahn was changed into an AG it is also mismanaged. This really turned out great.

[โ€“] silvercove@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Germany's biggest mistake in the last 10 years was to follow America in starting conflicts with Russia. Maybe they have learned their lesson and do not want to repeat the same mistake with China.

[โ€“] barttier@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

So not selling your stuff is starting a conflict? If this is all it takes I start to understand why russia is so aggressive.

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