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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.
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
Yes, I am not talking about Syriza’s deal specifically, as you said Cosco has had a lot of presence before that, I am talking about the company’s dealings in general. I believe it started with Giorgos Papandreou (who is generally a big advocate for cooperation between the EU, Greece and China)? Idk I don’t remember but I remember reading from time to time sketchy shit they were doing while negotiating with both the state as well as workers, as well as bad labor conditions. They also apparently used Golden Dawn scabs to attack or threaten striking workers and journalists. Here is a few articles in Greek:
https://www.efsyn.gr/ellada/koinonia/174161_skoteino-prosopo-toy-kinezikoy-giganta
https://iskra.gr/επίθεση-χρυσαυγιτών-σε-δημοσιογράφο/
The last one is about an MP of Golden Dawn having a meeting with the Chinese ambassador, which definitely had to do with Cosco.
I haven’t paid too much attention but there is a lot of things wrong with Cosco. Perhaps Belt and Road would be good but I don’t automatically trust it. But again I haven’t read too much about it.
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.
