Greens taking the foreign ministry
That means the CIA is taking charge. Surely the CIA is going to hold a neutral stance towards China...
Seems like positive news for China.
1. The current foreign minister of German is not exactly pro-China, so nothing has changed.
2. The way it looks, according to German law about telecom equipment, if there seems to be a deadlock over Huawei at the ministerial level, which the law in Germany says the issue will then go to the chancellor's office, and we know how much the German adhere to their laws. The new chancellor is bit of a China hand, and his party stacked all the most important departments,
A year old article.
This is a very smart way for the Germans to get around this Huawei issue. The Germans will say they followed a democratic process. End of debate and whining.
That's Europe. Germany the biggest economy in Europe, Russia the biggest country in Europe, all using Huawei for 5G, along with other hefty countries like Spain and Italy both NATO members, all using Huawei 5G gear.
A country in Europe that is not using Huawei which seems surprising is Greece, they did not ban Huawei but will not be using it from what I understand. Since they were not using Huawei, they did not change and incurred extra costs. That's business, win some lose some.