A few days after the official visit of Prime Minister of China Li Keqiang in Russia, chinaandgreece is attempting to elaborate on Sino-Russian relations and their impact on world affairs. In so doing, it has invited Head of the Department of Economics and Politics of China at IMEMO RAN, Dr Sergey Lukonin, to offer his insights.
George Tzogopoulos was asked by the Chinese version of Global Times to comment in the current situation of Hong Kong. As he said, the issue has been settled with the 1984 agreement between China and Britain.
«Κινέζοι και Έλληνες, παρά τις διαφορές στην κουλτούρα μας, έχουμε θεμελειώδεις ομοιότητες», τονίζουν ο Αλέξης και η Σέλμα. Η ιστορία τους ξεκίνησε πριν από επτά χρόνια στα βάθη της Κίνας. Εδώ και λίγους μήνες βρίσκεται στην αγκαλιά τους, ο πρώτος τους γιος, ο Ζέφυρος. Αν πιάσουν οι ευχές των γονιών του, θα πάρει προίκα «την δημιουργικότητα και το χιούμορ των Ελλήνων την εργατικότητα και την πειθαρχία των Κινέζων και θα μιλάει άπταιστα τις δύο γλώσσες».
Europe is my home but the place where people can earn money is Asia’ was the reply Alexia Petrakakou gave to me when I asked her opinion about Hong Kong. Being in her 30s, Alexia is working at a British company after studying marketing in London. She has lived in seven countries and speaks English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese along with Greek.
‘I went for first time to China in 2009 and I felt that it was like a natural environment for me. I guess this happened because of my ability to communicate with the world and my love for the country’, says Christina Alfieri. Christina is 33 years old. She studied pedagogics at the University of Patras and economics at the Athens University of Business and Economics.
In November 2006 former President of China Hu Jintao declared at the Beijing Summit of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC): ‘the forging of a new type of China-Africa strategic partnership is determined by the dynamics of China-Africa cooperation, and it represents our wish to promote global peace and development.
After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, no country in the globe could counterbalance the US in military, economically and cultural terms. The new millennium after the terrorist atrocities, however, came to challenge in the first base Washington’s primary soft power status.
Interview with Ms Lida Kokkini on similarities and differences between the Chinese and the Greek society.
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the National People’s Congress Dr George Tzogopoulos was asked by People’s Daily newspaper to comment on the Chinese political system. In his interview, Tzogopoulos focused on the Beijing speech of President Xi Jinping in which the Chinese leader stressed adherence to China’s political path.
‘We have provided clothes to many Greeks during the crisis’ says Li while supervising a truck transporting textiles in the center of Athens. ‘Where is the truck heading to?’ I ask. ‘To Larissa’, he replies. In the Chinese neighborhood of Athens, ‘ni-hao’ greetings are often mixed with ‘kalimera’ ones.
