Now that’s what I call the right attitude
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July 14, 2014 at 3:20pm
Joseph Muscat finds it “very fascinating” that “the world’s biggest and most dynamic economy” takes “so much interest in such a small country”.
Idiot: they’re not taking an interest in a tiny country. They’re taking an interest in a tiny country that happens to be an EU member state with a greedy and corruptible government of Third World pillocks advised by a World Bank-blacklisted Third World operative, a situation that is ripe for manipulation and trading in influence.
Listen to Australia’s foreign minister on the subject of China: “China doesn’t respect weakness”. She is so right. Read the report in the Brisbane Times.
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http://m.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/ct-editorial/foreign-minister-julie-bishop-checks-china-drift-20140710-zt2sf.html
Was there any mention of China in the Labour Party’s electoral manifesto?
No.
When did the Labour Party ever show its hand?
Joseph Muscat is not an idiot, though he sounds like one when he is addressing his idiots.
He has to talk to his idiots in their own language. Not that they understand what he says, but at least he makes sure that they remain idiots.
He is now telling his idiots that China is interested in our country. He knows China is not interested in our country. “We” know that China is not interested in our country.
The idiots though, are not interested to know whether or why China could be interested in our country. Such questions and thinking goes beyond them. The important thing for them is what the Prime Minister says and they even give him credit for what he does wrong.
This is turning out worse than I had imagined.
The PM is an idiot because he is letting his self-serving character run away with him when he is a position that was created to serve the nation.
Whatever. ”Malta qatt ma irrifjutat qamh” and neither have our much larger EU partners where Chinese investment is concerned. What I disagree with is the way things are being handled eg in the secrecy surrounding Ms Mizzi’s financial package and all those hangers -on in the delegation with as much knowledge of Chinese affairs as mine in space technology.
While I agree with you that “They’re taking an interest in a tiny country that happens to be an EU member state with a greedy and corruptible government”, Julie Bishop isn’t exactly the best example when it comes to principles – she is largely behind Australia’s push back policy especially in recent months with Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers. There is no doubt that those who have been returned recently will conveniently ‘disappear’.
And only idiots would believe that China is interested in a tiny island. Who knows what lies on China’s hidden personal agenda.
Political influence. It isn’t hidden. Both China and Malta have declared that Malta will work to further China’s interests in the EU.
The declaration was made twice: in 2010 and in 2014.
On both occasions, Muscat spoke in Malta’s name, even though he was in opposition in 2010.
In this month’s National Geographic there is an interesting article on how Chinese companies in Mozambique are literally bulldozing over the native farmers’ smallholdings to make way for Chinese mega farms with the blessing of the government there. Apparently the farmers are not being told or compensated for the take-overs.
And apparently Chinese are being sent there to run the farms.
Why are you surprised? Chinese companies are doing that in China, beating, stabbing and shooting peasant farmers in the process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEy9fddxX5s
Muscat should send Tony Zarb and his GWU team to sort out the workers’ rights problems in China. I am sure they would appreciate it. Jibda bil-prekarjat u jghidilhom kif solviha hawn Malta.
Il- Kapitalizmu qed jaghmel xalata fic-Cina. Utopija perfetta. Fejn ma hemmx demokrazija, bla drittijiet tal bniedem u tal-haddiema. Politika totalitarja stalinista.
Mintoff, dak il-mahmug, kellu l-istess politika li ghandhom ic-Cinizi llum. Ipprova jassar l-haddiem bil-minimum wage halli l-kapitalist jista jiffanga. Sfruttaw din is-sitwazzjoni skjavista hafna fabriki barranin fis-snin sebghin u tmenin.
Mintoff kien jobghod lil Malti.
I’m all for personality – particularly in a political context within which it is all but lacking (except where one notices what passes for personality in Malta in those political actors who deserve nothing but contempt.) But it seems intellectually dishonest for Baxxter to try and describe a place (in this case, China) by highlighting only the most negative aspects of life therein while saying nothing to his audience about the opportunities that it contains. (Has Baxxter been to China beyond Beijing/Shanghai/Hong Kong?) By all means, highlight corruption, the lack of rule of law, systematic abuses of human rights, etc., – keep true to our values, in other words – but at the same time use your brain to at least try and understand the argument for seeking to advance your interests in the place as best you can (even though we’ve left it very late to work to attract interest from China (students, tourists, etc.) when other countries have been at work at this for years, and when most Chinese, to the extent that they’ve heard of the country ‘Malta’, often mix it up with the Maldives.
[Daphne – Why would a Chinese student come to the University of Malta? Anybody who can get out of China and who has the money to do so is going to be aiming a little higher than that. That’s why Europe’s and North America’s top universities have plenty of Chinese students, and not because Britain and North America go out of their way busting a gut to attract them there. Yes, they want the fees Chinese students pay, but Chinese students want what they get in return. You miss something here: Chinese culture is intrinsically highly competitive. There’s no value in a university place they can get without beating off competition from a few hundred others. Lots of Maltese feel like that too about our university, incidentally. Ditto tourism. If you haul yourself all the way from China, why bother visiting Malta instead of, say, Rome, Paris, London, Stockholm, Milan, Berlin…? Would you fly to the Far East and waste your time trawling through poxy villages instead of visiting the key cities?]
What are Malta’s interests in China and how are they best served by turning Malta into China’s vassal state?
And its not the world’s biggest or most dynamic economy. That is the USA – China’s role is to use its enslaved masses as cheap labour and to steal and spy to make up for the fact that oppressed corrupt people are not very creative.
Because when it comes down to it, democracy (which we have never experienced in Malta) will always trump totalitarian states.
Bit rich coming from an Australian minister, talking bout civil liberties, considering what Australia does to asylum seekers. What wonderful liberal values – turn back boatloads of starving poor people. They recently claimed that they even ‘checked their papers’ while actually bobbing about at sea, and then deemed them not worthy asylum seekers. Yeah, like hell.