financial correspondent on that wall street has a new a saddo great to have your thoughts. chinese investors have been at active in portugal in recent years the sides acquiring a stake in the economy and also danes political influence in the european union is watching the development with mixed feelings. rodeo likes this asian touch and has been looked after chinese investors in portugal. but. the chinese have helped a lot because they ve brought important revenue streams into the country which of the national debt problem portugal was able to pay its debts straight off. after years of stagnation the financial crisis had meant unemployment poverty and austerity portugal s ten million citizens were kept solvent by the european stability mechanism but the country was forced to privatized state owned companies . then china came along on a shopping spree many chinese state owned companies bought into portuguese