Comments on: China’s mega-embassy compound: motion to be brought before parliament

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 10:23:54 +0000

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.

By: C Falzon

C Falzon — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 20:34:53 +0000

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.

By: Angus Black

Angus Black — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:17:11 +0000

In reply to Emm.

“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.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:14:33 +0000

In reply to Pablo. 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?

By: Angus Black

Angus Black — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:13:21 +0000

In reply to Makjavel. You mean 'we WILL be the biggest China Town in Europe'?

By: Candy

Candy — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:54:31 +0000

Malta will soon join the big cities and have its own Chinatown.

By: Madoff

Madoff — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:52:59 +0000

In reply to WhoamI?. Naqbel mieghek. L-iswitchers huma nies deplorevoli u haqqhom aghar.

By: Ares

Ares — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:25:08 +0000

In reply to Clueless. 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.

By: Emm

Emm — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:19:02 +0000

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?

By: Makjavel

Makjavel — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:15:32 +0000

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.