If I was a German general or minister I'd choose to be backdoored by the US rather than China any day of the week.
-https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/new-snowden-rev...
- https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-g...
Germany not only has several important bases, like Ramstein with the largest American military hospital outside American soil, and several other large bases (K-Town), but also houses two of eleven unified combatant commands in a single city: EUCOM and AFRICOM are both in Stuttgart.