The entry of the Chinese state-owned company Cosco at a container terminal in the port of Hamburg caused a dispute in the traffic light coalition.
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Berlin Port of Hamburg, Dortmund chip factory: Plans for Chinese investors to enter sensitive areas of the German economy have alarmed the federal government. Now the traffic light coalition wants to react.
The FDP and the Greens have drawn up proposals on how to limit Chinese influence. They want to introduce higher hurdles for foreign investors who want to invest in companies in critical sectors.
The Liberals want to decide on a corresponding strategy paper in the party presidency on Monday. The draft is available to the Handelsblatt. “We need a turning point in the protection of our country’s critical infrastructure,” it says. This also includes a new strategy for dealing with investments by authoritarian states.
Work on a reform is also underway in the house of Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens). “We have to fundamentally consider what critical infrastructure is and, above all, what rules apply to it,” State Secretary for Economic Affairs Franziska Brantner told the Handelsblatt.
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