A photograph from the Chinese press of an official meeting between Malta’s ambassador and a Chinese chairman
The text says:
The Republic of Malta Ambassador to China Mr. Clifford Borg-Marks Met with Chairman Huang Nuobo at Zhongkun Building
On May 27, 2014, Mr. Clifford Borg-Marks – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Embassy of the Republic of Malta in China met with Chairman Huang Nobo at Zhongkun Building. In the late 70 s, Mr. Clifford and Chairman Huang both studied in Peking University, so that they felt quite cordial to each other after they met and happily recollected the good times at university. Old classmates have been highly established in their own careers. Mr. Clifford admired the splendid life of Chairman Huang, who also invited Chairman Huang to visit Malta for investigation and welcomed Zhongkun Group invest in the tourism industry of Malta.
What sort of Maltese person would have been at Peking University in the 1970s? That’s right – exactly the same sort of Maltese person who would have been at the Stasi-controlled university in East Berlin at the same time.
The one is now Malta’s ambassador to China even though he lives there and considers himself Chinese, and the other is Mario Vella, the man who as chief of Malta Enterprise gave Sai Mizzi her 13,000 euro monthly package to go and live there without her husband despite being paid the married rate: red Commie freaks who like all red Commie freaks, can’t stop grabbing the money or doling it out to their corrupt cronies once they’re in power.
Also, how inappropriate this picture is: the Maltese ambassador to China looks like the Chinese chairman’s pet gremlin. Is the chairman unusually tall for a Chinese man, or is the ambassador unusually squat even for a Maltese man?
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http://english.zhongkun.com.cn/news/news_info.php?id=10430
It seems that Labour were more far-sighted than we ever gave them credit for. In the 70s and 80s they were preparing a cadre of young ideologues who would carry the torch into the future.
Those young men are now in late middle-age and are becoming ambassadors, chairmen and judges.
PN did something of the sort, but they opened up opportunities to all and sundry (too democratically, in my view). While the Labour cadres just floated along on fat public salaries during the PN years, the apprentices of the PN era (note the difference, because not all of them are PN acolytes) have spread their wings and are cutting their teeth in the wide world of international business, finance or the EU institutons. When their time comes, they will not bring ideology to the table, but real and valuable experience.
“Is the chairman unusually tall for a Chinese man, or is the ambassador unusually squat even for a Maltese man?”
It is very much the latter, Madam.
Considering Chinese men in general are rather short.
He actually is a rather tall chap by Chinese norms:
http://www.ceibs.edu/media/archive/101389.shtml
Not in the north of China he isn’t.
[Daphne – This north-south business with height is ridiculous and doesn’t hold up anywhere. Taller in the north and shorter in the south? Rubbish. Height is linked to ethnic origin; geographical location is the result of the predominance of the genes of certain ethnic groups or their descendants in that area. That’s why Libyans, for example, tend to be taller and longer-limbed on average than the Maltese. That’s just one example.]
‘..Mr. Clifford admired the splendid life of Chairman Huang, who also invited Chairman Huang to visit Malta for investigation and welcomed Zhongkun Group invest in the tourism industry of Malta…’
Malta Today’s Pisani has competition.
1970s China was essentially Chairman Mao – he died in 1976 while in power.
Chairman Mao was the architect of China’s Cultural Revolution, which saw millions dead, tortured, imprisoned or exiled to remote provinces. He was also the architect of the ‘reforms’ which led to mass starvation and famine in which millions died, with people being reduced to cannibalism.
That Clifford Borg Marks felt such a great affinity with Chairman Mao and Red China in his era says a great deal about Borg Marks.
Mulatu Teshome, now president of Ethiopia, was also on a scholarship at Peking University in the 1970s.
http://english.cntv.cn/2014/05/04/VIDE1399177800542760.shtml
Mulatu Teshome and Joseph Muscat were both among the very few foreign guests of the Chinese government at the Eco Forum in Guiyang last week.
Chinese wheels within wheels…
Didn’t Borg Marks get an outfit allowance like Mrs Mizzi’s? He needs it.
Are we still back to those days (for those who remember, which I still do vividly) when a Maltese envoy / ambassador to China in the dark days of Dom Mintoff was quoted as saying that “tant ahna hbieb mac-Cinizi li kwazi nistghu impixxu fil-bwiet ta’ xulxin” (we are so friendly with the Chinese that we can almost pee in each others pocket)?
Chinese from the north of China tend to be taller than their southern countrymen.
‘Mr. Clifford admired the splendid life of Chairman Huang, who also invited Chairman Huang to visit Malta for investigation’
Investigation? Mela dan Giovanni Kessler jew.
Will Chairman Huang be arrested once he lands in Malta?
Qishom fis-sakra f’xi festa.
Huang Nubo and the Maltese tourism industry?
Hmmm.
http://qz.com/176908/the-chinese-property-tycoon-who-wanted-to-buy-a-chunk-of-iceland-may-settle-for-norway/#176908/the-chinese-property-tycoon-who-wanted-to-buy-a-chunk-of-iceland-may-settle-for-norway/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/europe/iceland-baffled-by-chinese-plan-for-golf-resort.html?pagewanted=all