“Of course I would be happy if no Chinese technology was installed in the critical area,” says Economics Minister Habeck. But he also knows that this is not always possible.
Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to do without components from China for critical energy infrastructure projects in the future. Habeck said in Copenhagen that new orders and new planning should do completely without Chinese technology. “The projects that are already under construction, where orders have been placed, should be checked. But I would be a little less strict, otherwise we won’t get anything done.”
Habeck said: “With the transformers and the technologies that we are currently installing and where we don’t yet have anything of our own, we obviously always have to weigh things up. Of course I would be happy if no Chinese technology was installed in the critical area. Conversely, of course, we have a need to build.” You can’t wait for years either. In that sense there is a limit.
Only recently, when asked by the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” whether there would still be parts from the Chinese supplier Huawei in the German 5G network in five years, Habeck replied: “Not everything that is already installed will be easy can be expanded again. The network must continue to function. But we should do without it for the future.”
Source: Stern
