Few people have heard of IMST — a small German company with just 145 employees, specialising in satellite, 5G, and radar technology. That was until last month, when the government in Berlin stopped it being acquired by a subsidiary of Casic, the Chinese arms conglomerate. The deal, concluded the German economics ministry, represented a “serious threat to public order and national security”.
很少有人聽說過IMST,這是一家只有145名員工的小型德國公司,專門從事衛星、5G和雷達技術研發。但上個月這家鮮爲人知的公司出名了,因爲德國政府阻止了該公司被中國軍工企業集團中國航天科工集團(CASIC)的一家子公司收購。德國經濟部認爲,這筆交易代表著「對公共秩序和國家安全的嚴重威脅」。