An interesting discussion took place recently at the French Embassy in Athens on a potential new international trade route, according to an article in Haniotika Nea. The subject was the proposed India–Middle East–Europe Corridor (IMEC), nicknamed the Indian Silk Road, and the participants included the French Ambassador to Greece Laurence Auer, Nikos Vernikos for the Greek branch of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Hellas), and Deputy Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Crete Giorgos Atsalakis.
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The Chinese presence in Greece – updated*
Many Western countries in the past decade or so have transitioned from eagerly accepting cheap goods and investment from China without giving much thought to the consequences, to a degree of disengagement as a result of the PRC’s overt commercial and geopolitical expansionism, as well as anxieties over the security implications of Chinese dominance in the communications technology sector.
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