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Yay I live in Shrekland!
This is also as good a time as any to say that I played Shrek in a school theatre performance.
Side note: China is not doing very based stuff with its investments here generally, so I’m not 100% confident on how good this is gonna be.
I’m not talking about Belt and Road in particular, I am talking about how Chinese investors are mass buying apartments in the city center and turning them into airbnbs making the rents go up, as well as them buying a major port, which the workers reacted to for a number of reasons, and there were some really sketchy negotiations.
Yes, I’ve experienced something similar where I live. Tends to be bourgeoise Chinese who expect the CPC to expropriate their property (inshallah) so they’re trying to move as much of their assets out of China as possible.
if we are to believe the Varufucker any Pireas/Athens port investment deal that they got from China/ Cosco (which i doupt was part of B&R) was noticably better in terms and strings attached compared to western alternatives for similar investments , even if it still wasnt GOOD in a vacuum. And that Germany/EU blocked a bunch of them. Dont know the deeper timeline of the deals , cosco was already very preasent in Pireus even before Tsipras and a lot of deals were made before and after up to now. Since no government since the crisis had or will have any balls for any actual good move on the port (nationalizing or pushing for only much more mutualy benefitial investments from chinese state companies-they do do em in a lot of countries-) i guess Pireus was gonna be grabbed by foreign investments either way for a piece of bread compared to what it could be done with it if we didnt have neolib cucks . Maybe it was bettween the cosco deal which is still bad or some Africa style semi-colonialy controlled port
