The government’s response, currently divided on the issue, is seen as an indicator of how far it is willing to toughen its stance towards its main trading partner. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed on Friday that the possible sale only concerned a stake in a terminal and not a majority stake in an entire port, as Cosco has in Piraeus.
For her part, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said the leaders did not discuss the port of Hamburg, but did touch on critical infrastructure, adding that it should not be sold to authoritarian regimes. At the same time, French President Emmanuel Macron said the EU had made “strategic mistakes” in the past by selling infrastructure to China.
This change in the name of China comes from the concern of EU diplomats about the fact that Chinese President Xi Jinping, who delivered a key political speech on Sunday, is setting China on an increasingly authoritarian path. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc had learned the lesson of dependence on Russia and should be vigilant about China.
“In the case of China, it is the risk of dependency on technologies and raw materials,” he said, adding that the EU needed to increase its production capacity and move more towards trusted suppliers.
Source: Ambito
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