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Could the USA or an european nation offer to pay the loan in exchange for taking over the port? Itd be cool to swoop in on this deal.

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Unironic exceptionalism at display right here.

Colonialism is only bad if it's not Europe/US doing it. /s

Well to be honest China could not have brought democracy to Iraq. First of all they are not a democracy and second they do not have a Dick Cheney. (/s)

Greece should have thought of that:

  - Provide unfettered economic access to China for 20 years in exchange for having the country's debt paid by them.
  - Seed a few alarmist articles.
  - Wait until USA and EU go crazy over that and summarily agree on a debt write-off.

Greece already leases the port of Piraeus to China. Didn't help much, our country's richest families are shipping magnates.

I mean Greece is selling EU permanent residency to Chinese for 250K euros (property purchse), you can take with you all your parents and kids, best of all, it doesn't require you to actually live there to get it.

Greece did play that card: the government visited china and russia asking for loans . Did not change anything as far as i know. (The chinese already had a strategy for greece and the balkans though which is progressing steadily - they are part of one belt one road)

Greece is in EU and NATO. EU, monetarily and NATO in defense have Greece by the, you know what. No one can give Greece the money that EU gives them and if Greece loses NATO, Turkey is waiting. So no Chinese or Russian base will be allowed in Greece or Turkey gets a wink and a nod to remind Greece which side the bread is buttered. http://www.ekathimerini.com/235989/article/ekathimerini/news...

Russia swooped in to help Venezuela it’s possible there’s an oligarch out there who might be interested. Suppose it depends on the leverage they could get from their state.

imagine mr. bezos with port authority

Globalism is not very popular in the West right now.

Taking vindictive actions against authoritarian regimes never goes out of style.

Ah, of course, the U.S. is the leader of standing up for the little guy.

The entire West has taken advantage out of African nations but God forbid someone else tries to do that now.

> The entire West has taken advantage out of African nations but God forbid someone else tries to do that now.

As an American citizen, yes. We're not perfect by any means, but we're no authoritarian regime such that China has.

> The entire West has taken advantage out of African nations

> we're not perfect

China is using political prisoners as organ farms. Russia is flat out physically attacking LGBT individuals and lead by a dictator for life. America is still a shining beacon of freedom in comparison.

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