I noticed during the day that there are problems with some other videos. However, the thumbnails seem to be accurate.

The China Daily interview with Joseph Muscat, together with a short article, have the following link:

http://video.chinadaily.com.cn/2014/0709/3435.shtml

If one insists with the link, the internet will bring up the text of the piece, but not the video.

The item was entitled “China and Malta to Sign MOU” by Cong Ruiting, updated on 9 July 2014.

The short article reads as follows:

“China and Malta share the same interests and such a sound relationship should be pushed further to a new level.” Visiting Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said to China Daily during an exclusive interview during his 3-day visit in Beijing.

The purpose of the visit is to sign a 5-year memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government. It will be the longest ever agreement signed with a European Union member state, according to government sources.

The Maltese delegation includes deputy prime minister Louis Grech and the PM’s chief of staff Keith Schembri.”

He’s worse than that, he doesn’t believe in servicing capital. Just give us the cash and we’ll drop it on our starving.

They destroyed the cluster overnight, sales down over 40%.

The PN has to understand what Labour’s doing to an economy geared to SME’s. From installers working to JIT orders pouring in to pure R&D micro-enterprises working, indeed shaping, a vision.

And no surprise most smart monitoring, control and net based companies have registered a lull either.

Same old, Labour misses the wood for the trees. All he’s been obsessed with is stimulating internal demand for property, everything else kept waiting.

Production downturn out of control and constant over three quarters, that’s structural and blatantly the result of the wrong decisions.

Import export deficit spiked, both spiralling downwards. Call it a silent depression.

Muscat definitely sold Malta’s structural funds for growth, confirmed by the latest record; a miserable two applications for Horizon 2020.

How sick is it that he just has to keep treating us to titbits, lest he gives the game away, and expect the market to respond, to accelerate growth?

Even the property market’s dead beyond any economist arguing to the contrary. The crux in operators’ flat refusal to produce an analysis based on numbers and facts. They prefer leaving it to an editorial.

You cannot view this blog in China because its platform is blocked.

You cannot run a similar blog on a state-approved platform because independent opinion is banned.

It is an offence to make any remark that is critical of government or government officials. The seriousness of the offence is aggravated by the popularity of the remark.

An MOU may not be legally effective in ensuring China keeps its side of an agreement, but it is extremely effective in ensuring China gets what it wants out of Joseph Muscat in opposition and as prime minister, as we saw this week.

All of China Daily’s videos are blocked. All you can see are the thumbnails, titles and descriptions. The videos themselves are inaccessible.

Why did renewable energy grind to a halt? Because government is promising cheap electricity with its propaganda. People perceive that it’s not worth it now.

Also, this government is unwilling to honour a contract which was signed a year ago with Alberta Ltd for the provision of PV panels on public buildings. People are waiting for the outcome.

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN0FI08920140713

RT’s images self-explanatory.

http://rt.com/news/172400-rocket-attack-tripoli-airport/

Whose side are we on? It does seem there’s been a coordinated offensive against Islamists in Benghazi this morning as well.

Keep calm and stick to pushbacks.

This interesting article is a bit dated but highly relevant to our current situation here in Malta:
http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/in-praise-of-trickle-economics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8EKSBaqGQs

Keep in mind Muscat gracefully asked for the bridge design to be somewhat more considerate of environmental considerations.

No doubt the Chinese consider the blue lagoon as the best spot where to place the main truss holding the span from Comino to Gozo.

Does anyone think that’s not what they came up with to make it feasible and financially self-sustaining?

I can imagine his face as he saw their plans for the first time…..In bright red Autocad.