A good move -Maltese people can’t be trusted to run this Island anymore.

Thanks.

To refuel en route to Venezuela.

Subsequenty, carriers of ths type were designed to carry 90 passengers over short to mid range journeys.

Here he is, boasting about it, as if it were something normal in a supposed democracy.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/128130324/Joseph-Muscat-says-he-signed-an-agreement-with-China-on-Malta-s-behalf-it-Torca-18APR2010

Why wait for the PN and the EU to come to our rescue? You can ask your MP to ask questions in parliament, write to the Labour MPs in your district, write letters to the newspapers, expose wrongdoing when you see it, and generally make it awkward for this ridiculous gingerbread man to think of himself as some sort of statesman while the rest of the world tweaks his strings.

The aircraft are built somewhere around Xi’an. The shortest route between Xi’an and Venezuela would be northern, almost polar, via Scandinavia and the USA – many of the NATO heavyweights.

I’d assume they wanted to avoid this so they routed south. I suspect Africa was ruled out because it’s jetstream season there, which is a high altitude wind that flows west to east, contrary to their direction of flight, slowing them down abominably.

So, to answer your question, probably a combination of politics, weather and logistics. Incidentally, they departed earlier today.

Your comment is my opinion too. I sincerely hope the PN and the EU will come to our rescue – we really need both of them. And it is in such circumstances that we really need the EU’s help and not with irregular immigration. I am convinced that there is something sinister brewing underhand.

Why in military planes?

Muscat sold Malta to China while he was still in opposition. Hadn’t he boasted about having signed a long term agreement with China?

Now he’s exposing the thin end of that wedge.

Could this set up a feedback loop that would swallow him up? If so, I see a glimmer of hope. To your mobiles, lads! The number’s 999 888 77.

I think we can safely say that this was not the first batch of equipment for the new power station. That will be shipped in shortly.

But it is clear that China is now more than comfortable using Malta as a coaling station. All those anti-British idiots who wax lyrical about Il-Helsien and the evils of the British military base, would you please welcome the new military base of the People’s Republic of China.

Oh and long may you-know-who rot.