ignoring warnings from six federal ministries, including the Greens’ Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, amid fears of risky economic over-dependence on Beijing.

Reality:

Cosco and HHLA have been working together for more than 40 years. Cosco and HHLA had entered into initial talks about a shareholding in June 2021. Cosco originally wanted to take over 35 percent of the terminal operating company. However, several federal ministries protested against this, so that the cabinet set the quota at below 25 percent in October last year to prevent Cosco from acquiring a blocking minority.

You should not use politico for your primary source of information. In the best case they get it half right, often not even that.

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.

Fuck Axel Springer publications. Why even spread this major source of misinformation here?

Any specific reason to post a year old article?
Never mind that politico is agenda driven trash.