There’s no ‘may well’ or ‘I think’. Both parties get something out of a deal and there’s no question that it’s the political leverage of a foot and vote in the EU that China gets out of this deal, and the many others to come.

For many years, I have often wandered if we, as a nation, ever had any really good deals with our neighbours from the south. The standard reply is always that we get imported oil cheaper than spot prices. If this is really true and by how much, very few people know.

I think China may well want something that Malta can’t give them but that they will try to make it look like they are giving them but they aren’t really.

Show me the money.

I would love to form a view on these MOUs.

If only there were details available.

How can you say something is good or bad if have nothing on which to base your view?

[Daphne – That’s not a very clever statement. There are two immediately obvious aspects to this: whether it is a good idea to give 35% of Malta’s power monopoly to a totalitarian Communist government, and the terms and conditions of the sale itself. You don’t need to look at the latter to form a view on the former. But you do need to consider the former even before you have the facts on the latter, if you are going to form a view in context. Start by asking the question: what’s in it for China? Do they want Enemalta or Malta’s veto in the European Union?]