Breitbart ATHENS, Greece — The Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East is hardly the only waterway on President Donald Trump’s mind at the moment. While Trump and the international media may be talking about the Strait of Hormuz nonstop, the broader questions about other sea lanes and shipping waterways have very much dominated the geopolitical discussion worldwide upon Trump’s return to the White House and have been at the center of tensions between the U.S. and China, set for a worldwide primetime showdown when Trump visits Beijing in May.
A top Greek government official is dishing on how Trump and his envoy to the Hellenic Republic have outmaneuvered Chinese President Xi Jinping in the East Mediterranean by building its own U.S.-funded port after a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) connected company took over a Greek port during Trump’s first term.
Adonis Georgiadis, the current Minister of Health of Greece who also serves as the vice president of the governing party New Democracy, sat down with Breitbart News for a lengthy interview in February when Breitbart News traveled to Athens for a huge event with U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle. Guilfoyle sat for a lengthy interview on stage at the Nisyros Dialogues event in Athens at the Grande Bretagne hotel hosted by Greek businessman Peter Mihalos in mid-February.
Back in 2019, in Trump’s first term in the White House, Georgiadis was Minister of Development and Investment. “At that time, COSCO had already bought the Piraeus board,” Georgiadis told Breitbart News in his office in February. “They came to my office, the ambassador they had, and they told me they wanted to buy the Elefsina shipyard.”
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