China’s mega-embassy compound: motion to be brought before parliament
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November 1, 2014 at 1:52pm
MaltaRightNow reports today that Michael Falzon, PS for Planning, will bring before parliament a motion for the sale of 20,000 square metres of land at Pembroke to China for Eur7.8 million.
Information on the sale was already in the public domain. The news is that the motion has been prepared. The news site also reports that China originally wanted a site at Ta’ Qali close to the US embassy compound, but that the United States objected.
The site at Pembroke will allow China to have a larger embassy compound than the Americans.
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Don’t the people see the pattern – or should I say web – that is emerging from the various pieces of news involving Malta and China?
Is the Maltese government so naive or shortsighted to think China will boost Malta’s finances with its investments without us having to sell our soul?
Malta will be known as the “mole” of the West at best, or China’s prostitute at worst.
They are rushing all the deals all of a sudden. What is Joseph Muscat afraid of?
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai and a population sick of regimented poverty.
Muscat aghar minn Mintoff.
Missni kont naf ahjar. Wara kollox x’tistenna minn tifel ta’ negozjant mbruljun?
Now Madoff. If that means you have voted Labour in March 2013, then please go in a room, lock the door, grab your shoe, and using the pointed end, hit your balls repeatedly using the maximum force you can exert.
Naqbel mieghek. L-iswitchers huma nies deplorevoli u haqqhom aghar.
Now they can dig deep underground and meet the US underground base somewhere at B’Kara. It’s what sovereign nations do: they give away the hidden land beneath their feet.
In 2003, 54% of the Maltese electorate voted to join the EU, after years of heated political wrangling. This was a clear mandate for the government of the day and for all future governments. The Maltese were clear about which political and economic partners they wanted for their country.
Yet, with Joseph Muscat in government, we are still to hear about how we shall be spending the €1.2 billion the previous government secured as EU funding for this country’s development – arguably one of the main benefits of EU membership. Meanwhile, the government is focusing on attracting funds from China instead.
When was the Maltese electorate ever consulted on seeking such close political and economic ties with China? Make no mistake about it: by selling our energy company, power station, airline, passports and God knows what else to the Chinese we are effectively becoming a Chinese dependency.
From what I have gathered the Operational Programme has not been finalised yet and there is a good probability that this shall not happen before June 2015. IF the government is efficient (?), then we might see the first applications in January 2016, with the first projects starting in 2017.
That would mean a 7 year programme compressed to 4 years.
They call it an embassy, and so will Labour, making it Chinese territory, and how convenient if it were to contain production facilities.
Made in EU China.
Passports, Enemalta, Air Malta, what next?
Police , army , MEPA , hidden contracts , undemocratic practices , unanswered parliamentary questions , shady deals , slave trading , Sai Special Agent Mizzi , hunting and trapping etc ; the list can go nauseatingly on . Quite an achievement for two years in government .
Organ harvesting. I think I shall write a short story for Halloween.
Excellent.
Now all Chinese embassies, representative offices and state owned enterprises operating in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will have a regional ‘hub’ in Malta, defending and representing their interests.
Enquiries should be addressed to Joseph Muscat, The CEO of the Malta Province, China Business Centre for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Pembroke, Malta.
Ground floor offices will include an Air China/Air Malta ticketing agency and an Enemalta/BWSC billing office where residents of Madliena, Sliema, St. Julians, Pembroke, Swieqi, High Ridge and the surrounding hamlets can settle their electricity bills and collect their blackout cheques of Eur 25 per household (or is it just 30% of Eur 25?).
The next step is for all Air China flights originating in Ghana, Guinea, Cameroon, Liberia etc to be routed through Luqa where they can connect to a number of European destinations via Air Malta, or to take long haul, direct flights to Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai.
Ah, the roadmap.
Yes, displace the African continent safely to Europe.
A million Chinese settle every year in Africa, Ciccio.
How does one write roadmap in Chinese?
How does one write: “Lowell is an idiot”?
路标
In my mind this building will in real terms be the new parliament. The one near city gate can house the pimps and the lackeys that have sold us out.
Correct. It’s where the real decisions that concern us will be taken. The one in Valletta will just rubberstamp them.
Will they lay a dedicated communications cable between Pembroke and the Fourth Floor at Mile End?
All of a sudden the word ‘neutrality’ has lost its significance in the political arena.
We will have the biggest China Town in Europe, complete with massage parlours, cat and dog farms, sweat shops, wives on demand, Chinese smog souvenirs.
You mean ‘we WILL be the biggest China Town in Europe’?
Isn’t it just just great how the very people who talk about helsien, barrani and indhil, are the ones who sold us out to Libya in Mintoff’s and KMB’s time and now under Muscat to China .
No one in his right mind would saddle himself with powerful oppressors. No one in his right mind would invite a powerful abuser into his home and give him the key to the front door, not even for a huge amount of money. Abusers always take much more than they can ever give back. So what’s in it for them?
“No one in his right mind would invite a powerful abuser into his home…”
Then we had better build the mother of all mental hospitals to treat some 150,000 demented patients. Phase 1 can be large enough to accommodate 18,000. Several phases can follow later.
Malta will soon join the big cities and have its own Chinatown.
If I calculate correctly the American Embassy site is actually larger than the land mentioned at Pembroke. At about 150 x 200 metres that’s 30,000 vs the 20,000 sq m for the Chinese Embassy.
Does the Chinese land at Pembroke abut on the sea edge?
The last time I asked this question someone said the sea there is deep and not suitable for berthing use, but that’s not my question.
I am thinking that deep sea is more suitable to the uses they have planned.