Robert Naiman wrote: > If there's a new Chinese-led credit option and people in Greece don't want to take it, what's to make them do so? How are they worse off if there's an outside option? <
The decision is not up to "people in Greece." Right now, Syriza makes the decision. It has already retreated from its pre-election platform. It has shown little ability to mobilize the people of the country to add strength to bargaining with Germany and the Troika. Syriza made the blunder of expecting the Spanish and Portuguese governments to support it in European talks, when the obvious situation was that these governments had no desire to give ammunition to their opponent -- Podemos in the case of Spain. Given these conditions, it is not at all clear that Syriza turning to China would be a plus to a final outcome rather than, for instance, a cover for Syriza to accept a terrible deal while proclaiming it had outfoxed the Troika. But you are right, Robert. We outsiders were not elected to recommend whether Greece should conduct negotiations with China. We do have a moral duty to denounce the plunder of the Greek people by European capital, Greek capital, U.S. capital, and Chinese capital (for example, the case of the partial privatization of the Piraeus port operations to a Chinese corporation). _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
