Yanis Varoufakis on China

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Yanis Varoufakis on China
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Greece’s former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, discusses China’s growing role in Southern Europe and EU politics with Anatole Kaletsky, Co-Chairman of Gavekal Draganomics, David Alandete, Managing Editor of El Pais, and Torsten Riecke, Handelsblatt’s international correspondent.

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Reiner Wilhelms-Tricarico
Reiner Wilhelms-Tricarico
1 year ago
As a German myself, I really liked how Yanis educated the guy from the Handelsblatt. I hope he learned a lesson.

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Ewan McFadyen
Ewan McFadyen
1 year ago
Yanis Varoufakis is going around Europe trying to counter everything that Steve Bannon has been doing

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victor smith
victor smith
2 years ago
yanis is a very smart and honest person.
but the establishment hate honest and kind people.

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William King
William King
2 years ago
Every time I watch Yanis, I learn something new.

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dominic k
dominic k
2 years ago
Varoufakis is absolutly right,this German guy wants to tell him that Europe cares more about Greece than the Chinese but in reallity they doesn,t and Varoufakis tell him the truth!

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qj7205
qj7205
2 years ago
They really don't get it, do they? Neoliberals aren't left-wing!

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chris19511
chris19511
10 months ago
It's amazing the amount of knowledge possessed by this man... He is a Greek national treasure, I hope the greeks realize that...

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Grigoriu Lorm
Grigoriu Lorm
1 year ago
OMG, how Yanis was right, he basically predicted Yellow vests...

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Michelangelo Missoni
Michelangelo Missoni
1 year ago
Spanish guy: "We've seen the rightwing populist movement coming up in Greece, or in Spain, Italy, Portugal... we've been safe so far..."
Yanis: "Soooo far" ...
2018: socialist stronghold in Spain elects a right-wing party...
This was over a year ago... Yanis understands the entire picture of what's going on. He was less predicting and more stating the inevitability of a rightward shift when the so-called center-left is not even progressive in its words.

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Pat Pending: Wolf
Pat Pending: Wolf
2 years ago
As time goes on I have gained high respect for Yanis Varoufakis.At first, when he was Finance Minister I did not understand him.
Today I know it was due to improper coverage through the media of Yanis.I respect and understand Yanis. Keep on going. I'm German. ;-)
Wolf

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Spinky L
Spinky L
2 years ago
Obvious editing of Yanis' comments--play the whole thing and don't interrupt him.  We need to hear what he has to say.

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JackSuer
JackSuer
2 years ago
Yanis Varoufakis is very smart, insightful...
Respect from a Chinese.

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Cicero Robbie
Cicero Robbie
2 years ago
Over edited and done badly. Spoiled an interesting debate.

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Yehudi McEwan
Yehudi McEwan
2 years ago
Love it how V sticks it to the German.

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raphael ward
raphael ward
1 year ago
Yanis is Heavy, goes in hard on the mincing little German capitalist technocrat, Yanis ain't having it mate! Battle of the Baldies! Yanis is the Heavyweight!

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Alkmp75
Alkmp75
2 years ago
Yanis  Varoufakis  is the pride of Greece.......and the nemesis for  german finance minister Schaueble

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Carlos Cervantes
Carlos Cervantes
2 years ago
I’m supporting diem25 from America and feel proud of it.

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Jennifer Cruz
Jennifer Cruz
1 year ago
The world is NOT ready for non-politician politicians. Especially if they are smart.

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D. K.
D. K.
1 week ago
The moderator called him "David Al Dente" at the end.

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Tony Dickensen
Tony Dickensen
1 year ago
What a brain and what a heart does YV have. Inspiring like very few others I have listened to in my 60 years.

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morpheos111
morpheos111
1 year ago
As Yanis says the Chinese are focused on their own interest. But as journalist and Africa and China correspondent for New York Times has said, the Chinese will deliver on what is agreed upon, will not interfere or lecture the hos country on its internal politics and will go almost anywhere where they are welcome. Piraeus has become a success despite big challenges and is set to expand in the near future with hotels. Thanks to Chinese investment.

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aLERNO
aLERNO
2 years ago
The "right" didn't win in Spain, they only got 33% of votes and the pseudo-"SOCIALISTS" GAVE THEM THE GOVERNMENT so that Podemos didn't get to Government.   ELPAIS "newspaper" (more like the spokesperson of the multinationals) ran an aggressive campaign threatenning Pedro Sanchez (psoe) for him not to form a government with Podemos.   STOP LYING, ELPAIS

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2 years ago
Greece and China both benefit from this significantly and of course this is the type of relationship Greece wants because China will invest in Greece developing all the things the EU ignored and both have a pretty recognizable relationship as 70% of the Greek shipping magnates work primarily for China since the 1970's. They are the ones who influenced China to buy the port of Piraeus.

The EU lost influence in Greece just as the US did before them, they are the ones who forced Greece to privatize, they wanted a fire sale and then they didn't buy the assets. They further amplified the recession with austerity and then they complain because someone else buys it first? All of these events happened because of the bailout agreements, they didn't care when no one invested after the bailout agreements so why the hell should they care now when someone else will? If they want their money back they should be happy China is willing to develop the whole Axios river area because if they don't Greece will NEVER be able to pay back their debt. The debt will be 300% of GDP by 2060 and continue to increase from there.

 China and Greece actually do have a lot of the same issues, they both have a major problem with Islam and Turks and since the US and EU do not help Greece when it comes to Islamic aggression, Greece has always looked elsewhere like towards Israel.
- Turkish agents have been caught starting wildfires in Greece to cause economic hardship.
- The Turkish government has been caught helping smugglers smuggle illegal immigrants into Greece.
- The Turkish air force and navy violate Greek airspace and sovereign waters daily.
- Turkey still occupies Cyprus and the US president Johnson said they would sink any Greek ship that went to help Cyprus against the Turkish invasion.
- Turkey broke all the agreements from the treaty of Lausanne.
- Erdogan and the leader of the second biggest party in Turkey talk about taking the Aegean islands from Greece.

What do the US and EU do? Nothing, the EU gave some money to Turkey even though they continue to send migrants. Instead of helping Greece with the migrant crisis which Merkel influenced, they say fuck 'em it is their problem.

Now look at what China has offered Greece:

- A massive development of the port of a Piraeus to be a part of the silk road as it was historically.
- A stake in Greece's infrastructure which is in fact worse than China's, yes that is right Greece's infrastructure is worse than China's.
- A a development of the Axios river all the way to Vienna basically making it so ships no longer have to travel through the strait of Gibraltar (what this whole thing is really about)
- Diminishing the influence of the straits of Gibraltar and the Bosporus straits.

Greece should have done this from the beginning.

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Åsmund Kjus
Åsmund Kjus
2 years ago
Where is the full interview?

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elena b
elena b
2 weeks ago
These guys fail to point out the heavy handed interference of USA interests into Europe's political and economic life.

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aLERNO
aLERNO
2 years ago
"PS" more like "BS".  GIVE US THE FULL INTERVIEW, WITHOUT EDITING OUT WHAT YOU DON'T LIKE!!!  Is that your professional and intellectual ethics: to EDIT OUT other people's opinions.

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Tommy Edge
Tommy Edge
2 years ago (edited)
Yanis is the second coming for all the working and middle classes of europe not just greece .a pity his priminister never had the balls to back him to the hilt .if he had the pain of europeans would be nearly over by now .instead the death of europeans is looming in our future still .taking back power from eurocrats will be like getting a puppy off his favourite slipper at 1 year old and a rotweiler to boot

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Anthony Howell
Anthony Howell
2 years ago
Terrific debate. Thank you.

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Sam Delahunty
Sam Delahunty
1 week ago
When u need three experts to interview one man..

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Chris Greene
Chris Greene
2 years ago
Faustian bargain with financiers  has built house of cards that crashed... Time for social democracy and regulating banks

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