Healthy, healthier, healthiest.

You are talking complete nonsense.

Economies of scale, my dear Silvio. Your three of four companies wouldn’t have ST’s critical mass for R&D and hi-tech stuff.

But I suppose you’re the sort who’s happy with fabbriki tal-elf.

My god, the ignorance in this country.

“Most of all, however, Merkel will speak her mind on the question of political freedom. In her speech at Tsinghua University the chancellor did not mince words when she described what it had meant for her as someone raised in East Germany to finally experience political freedom.

The meaning of this for China cannot have been lost on the students listening to her: it is 25 years since Tiananmen Square as well as since the fall of the Berlin Wall.”

So what if S.T leaves, it would be healthier to have it replaced by two or three smaller companies.

I agree with you, Mrs H.Ellul is a capable woman. I would appreciate it, if should give us her opinion on the fact that Lufthansa has now new partners, you know who? Those dangerous monsters from China.

@calculator

You need to ask what the individuals involved get out of it.

What do Chinese officials get out of short termist mega-deals in a country where the rule of law doesn’t exist?

He’s just been quoted by the newspapers as having said that the world is not just the EU. This is his way of justifying his obsession with China and his glorification of it. So his perception of the ‘world’ boils down to communist dictatorships and failed states like Libya.

I am concerned about the way the PN has reacted to this state of affairs with China. To avoid being depicted as ‘negative’ it is describing as ‘positive’ even things which are not. Muscat has managed to condition the PN’s way of thinking and of opposing.

Labour got into power by relentlessly tearing everything and everyone to shreds – yes, even good things and good people. In Opposition it was a force for destruction, and yet it conditioned people into thinking that the PN was and is negative, despite its own destructiveness.

The PN should take this situation seriously, because the way I see it, with its fear of criticising in case it is criticised in turn, Muscat is getting away with murder.

What would Labour get out of it, though? Perpetual rule over a stretch of land which becomes increasingly dysfunctional and worthless as a state, propped up by their Chinese paymasters.

It’s basically Labour returning to their Mintoffian roots and taking the easy way out rather than developing a nation for the better and winning over people’s hearts and minds by sound reasoning in free and fair elections.

It seems things are going to get ugly quickly unless we get a more effective opposition and take to the streets with mass demonstrations taking place. And the likelihood of either happening isn’t looking too good at the moment.

The Chinese are always out to make a buck and their interest is not to make other countries rich. In fact it would suit them if we remain in dire straits so that they would always be able to dangle carrots and pull the strings while we dance to their tune.

If, on the other hand, the plan for Malta is to showcase made in China products which are the brainchild inventions of Chinese firms, and not cheap counterfeits of European/Japanese/American etc inventions, what are these uniquely Chinese inventions? Indeed, are there enough to fill the vetrina?

That was the situation some months back, until German manufacturers stood up and pressed for real implementation of competition laws.

It then resulted that all Chinese panel manufacturers were operating below cost, losses absorbed by Chinese credit institutions.

All recent ‘defaults’ in China registered by solar panel corporations. And that’s only because China reluctantly subscribed to a minimum of data gathering and analysis.

To date, its shadow banking system remains off limits.

That my dears, is the dragon.