By Antonis Antzolettos

The need for dialogue and cooperation of the Great Powers, “not to fall into the vicious circle of mutual destruction,” he said Alexis Tsipras In the opening speech he spoke to 28th Harvard College China Forumwhich included hundreds of Chinese students and teachers from all over America.

“We must not accept a world without rules, we have to work for a world with better rules,” he said, adding that we must “seek the word culture again and work for peace.”

The former Greek prime minister congratulated the students who organized the forum at the most difficult moment of Greek -Chinese relations in recent decades, stressing that the power with the greatest courage and the most open horizons in every society are always young people.

Alexis in his speech stressed that the protection of academic freedom in the US, China and Europe is more important than ever “so that we can overcome this difficult period”.

Analyzing the international situation, as it has been formed lately, he pointed out that West and China have to work 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.

Concerning the field of world economy, Alexis Tsipras emphasized that the leaders 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 of the interests of the interests of Agreements and new multilateral 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.

The former president of SYRIZA focused on the logic of authoritarian capitalism based on the well -known apostasy of Deng Xiao Ping – “White Cat, Black Cat – It is enough to catch mice”. “Each country has its own progress in progress but we must” seek the truth in the facts, “as another Chinese saying in Han’s book says.” And the facts show that economic and political progress are interrelated, “he said.