Former Prime Minister and President of SYRIZA, the inaugural speech as an honorable guest was given Alexis Tsipras In the 28th Harvard College China Forum, which included hundreds of Chinese students and teachers from all over America.
The former Greek prime minister congratulated the students who organized the forum at the most difficult time of the Greek -Chinese relations of recent decades, as he said, stressing that the power with the greatest courage and the most open horizons in every society is always the young people.
Alexis Tsipras in his speech stressed that the protection of academic freedom in USA, China and Europe It is more important than ever to be able to overcome this difficult period. Analyzing the international situation, as it has been formed lately, he pointed out that the West and China must cooperate on critical issues that are existential for humanity, referring, inter alia, climate crisis, pandemics, artificial intelligence, the issue of non -propagation of nuclear and nuclear,
At the same time, he stressed that it is necessary to speak openly about the disagreement areas, such as respect for human rights and the principle of good neighborly.
In terms of the field of the world economyAlexis Tsipras emphasized that the leaderships of each country should not only focus on defending the short -term interests of their peoples in an international environment without rules that will lead to trade war, the confrontation of the interests arrangements.
Referring to the US-China-EU balance, he noted that if a global force does not agree, then the rest must continue together on a path of cooperation, until it recognizes it.
Finally, he spoke against the logic of authoritarian capitalism based on the well -known apostasy of Deng Xiao Ping – “White cat, black cat – as long as it catches mice.” “Each country has its own course in progress but we must” seek the truth in events “as another Chinese saying from Han’s book says. And the events show that economic and political progress are interrelated, ”Mr Tsipras said.
“Tsipras calls on the US not to give F35 to Turkey”
It should be noted that the positions of the former prime minister in the context of his academic lectures have triggered the angry reaction of the Turkish press, against Mr Tsipras’ platform for Greek foreign policy. For anti -Turkish lobbying by Alexis Tsipras in the US Millyet newspaper speaksstating that in his meetings with thought groups in the US he criticized Turkey’s opposition to the planned project of an underwater electricity line between Greece and southern Cyprus and that he had pressure on Washington to protect his country’s rights under international law.
At the same time, Tsipras also announced that it opposes the possible sale of F-35 fighter aircraft in Ankara from the US, Turkish reports about the former prime minister said.