Chinese Bearing Gifts - Mallory Factor - Common Sense - Forbes by Piraeus athens greece

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:01:28 -0600

Chinese Bearing Gifts - Mallory Factor - Common Sense - Forbes

by Piraeus athens greece @ Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:01:28 -0600
Contrast this image with what I witnessed in Athens: Premier Wen's presence in the capital city hardly disrupted business at all. Instead, the Premier's motorcade was like the processions on ancient Greek vases: short and concise. Few streets were closed or guns displayed. ... Yet China is open about this objective; as the Chinese press recently reported, “China will help upgrade Greece's largest port, Piraeus, to a distributing center for Chinese Exports to Europe.” ...