The Gatestone Institute.org, has a revealing article on the stunning extent of China’s buy ups of Europe’s strategic assets in technology and energy. The depressing thing about this is that while this is a significant national security concern, the European elites are letting it happen, as has been done in Australia and Africa. The reasons are first, a naïve commitment to globalisation, that their nation does not exist or should not exist, so China dominating them is a type of historical justice. That is the ideological, ethno-masochism reason. But, the second more likely reason is that the elites have numerous financial interests with China, and have are willing to be traitors to their own nations.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18082/china-buying-up-europe