They promised change and we got it all right, because the 1970s Red Commie fossils are back out of the museum cabinet (2)
Malta’s ambassador to China, Clifford Borg Marks, who was selected by the China regime for tertiary education in Beijing in 1977.
Malta’s delegation to China two weeks ago included not only Mario Vella but a fellow-traveller of his from the museum cabinet of Maltese 1970s Red Commie fossils: Clifford Borg Marks.
Borg Marks, despite living permanently in China for the last four decades or so, and with a Chinese wife and Chinese children and almost certainly Chinese citizenship, has been made Malta’s ambassador to China.
This when he lives there and is more or less Chinese. This is the same situation as with Malta’s new ambassador to Australia, who has lived there all his life, has a business there, and is an Australian citizen. But I digress.
Clifford Borg Marks, like Mario Vella, was selected for tertiary education by a totalitarian Communist regime in the 1970s, only Vella went to East Berlin while Borg Marks went to Beijing in 1977.
When he graduated in 1982, the Maltese government (Dom Mintoff was prime minister and Alex Sceberras Trigona was Foreign Minister) gave him a position there as Malta’s only resident diplomat, from 1982 to 1986.
In 1986, he was moved to Canberra as Malta’s acting high commissioner in Australia, a post he held until the Maltese socialists were voted out in 1987, a year later.
Borg Marks simply returned to his natural home, China (at first via Hong Kong), and has lived and worked there ever since. He describes himself as a specialised practitioner in intellectual property law; this when China is one of the world’s most notorious violators of intellectual property rights.
Borg Marks’ CV gives no indication of his ever having read law, still less the name of the university from which he would have had to graduate first in law and then as a specialist.
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http://www.foreign.gov.mt/default.aspx?MDIS=371
Yes they’ll defend China, not Malta. Who’d care about Malta, after all those years living there?
Apart from caring, he can’t really defend Malta’s interests against China’s even if he and the Maltese government wanted to.
Ambassadors cannot and should not be citizens of the receiving state for this very reason.
There is another reason: the receiving state cannot expel an ambassador who is actually one of its own citizens.
People who are citizens of and long-time residents of the ‘receiving state’ are made consuls, not ambassadors.
With Borg Marks’ business and family established in China, and with China being a communist dictatorship and not a democracy, Borg Marks will not stand up for Malta against China even if there is need to do so, because of fears that his business and family will pay the price.
So what we have here is a man who is subservient to China and dependent on Chinese goodwill for his personal and business survival being made Malta’s ambassador there. Yes, Malta’s ambassador to China is subservient to China, not Malta.
The problem here should be obvious, but obviously not for Labour (who seem willing to be subservient to China and drag us all with them anyhow).
Well said. I suppose Muscat took it onto consideration, which means he’s willing to forgo any other interests but what he’s after.
Which is why he’s not willing to talk about any of these generous donations from our old friends.
In other words, why would anyone propose a feasibility study for a bridge which route renders it extravagant before putting down the first sketch on paper anyway?
What matters is the 4 million euros mentioned as costs ‘forfeited’ by the Chinese.
In other words, at best, this Red Commie could at best be China’s ambassador to Malta, not vice versa.
“..an extensive China background”. Right. At least it’s not a porcelain background. Morons.
Malta’s foreign service really has become a joke.
From http://www.thetimes.co.uk
Will we arriving to this with the army firmly in the hand of Labour acolytes.
Tony Bonnici
Last updated at 3:36AM, September 21 2013
The government in Venezuela has temporarily taken over the running of a factory in what can only be described as a new roll for the state.
A state agency yesterday ordered the ocuupation of a firm that produces toilet paper in what it called an effort to ensure consistent supplies after embarrassing shortages earlier this year.
Troops move in as shortages prompt new roll for Venezuela
The title of my earlier post
The ‘roll’ in reference presumably being the toilet roll, given the circumstances.
What about Mr John Aquilina, I guess Australian since he was a member of the Australian Parliamnet, who has been appointed high commissioner to India.
Uncanny how close China’s trade blurb is similar to Muscat’s tack. Quote at 1.25 is priceless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcBoVgyKjH8
Now if they’re going to test their LNG ‘technology’, I’m sure Muscat will keep us safe.
One month to choose the bidder, according to Konrad, and another 4 weeks to settle all the details and kick off one of the largest terminals in the Med.
Yes, that’s 20 working days to proceed from proposal and determine working drawings.
Phew.
Well, he has published a book with Oxford University Press.
http://www.amazon.com/Trade-Mark-Peoples-Republic-China/dp/0195866606/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379946711&sr=1-2
According to Wikipedia, Malta has a non-resident ambassador for North Korea (ahem, I mean the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea) in Beijing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_North_Korea
Does this mean that Clifford Borg Marx is also Malta’s ambassador to the dictatorship in Pyong Yang?