Toni Abela and his delegazzjoni tal-partit: at the Shangri-La Hotel in Qingdao
Please see previous post first. Toni Abela and his Malta Labour Party delegation also met the Communist Party’s deputy secretary for the city of Qingdao at the Shangri-La Hotel there.
They took him to meet “the Haier Group and Shandong Shipping Corporation and discussed matters of mutual interest”. The Haier Group makes washing-machines.
I quote from China Daily (which, ironically, is doing the work of the Maltese press):
Wang painted a picture of the city’s economic and social development and said that there is real potential and good prospects in cooperation and voiced the hope that the visitors could use this opportunity sit to promote agreements in ocean transportation, port logistics and trade.
Abela responded by saying that he hopes the two can increase exchanges to bring more benefits to both peoples.
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/qingdao/2014-10/31/content_18837934.htm
http://www.haier.com/cn/
Haier also makes fridges and freezers – this being the original business of the company. In fact, the name Haier comes from the second part of the name Liebherr, the German brand of fridge/freezers which set up the Chinese company.
http://www.haier.com/uk/products/fridgesfreezers/
Perhaps Toni was looking for a blokka silg?
The kind of visits that lead to nowhere, same as youth exchanges, but five times more expensive and with exception that with youth exchanges you do actually get some long-term benefit of having more open-minded adults.
Haier are also one of the major producers/ exporters of air conditioners
Haier makes washing machines and air conditioners.
Are we back to bulk buying or is somebody after the agency for Haier?
It’s the next thing after Leisure Clothing. A mass assembly line to be installed in the Australia Hall. Workers will reside next door, at the Embassy.
A long and expensive journey simply to exchange catch phrases and cliches. How about Toni telling us what his trip was really all about. Or maybe, given Toni’s performance on TeleTubi, maybe that was indeed what was really said.
A must read.
This is from May 2014.
http://thediplomat.com/2014/05/chinas-new-silk-road-vision-revealed/
Ciccio, what are your thoughts on Karmenu Vella’s role as Commissioner in charge of Maritime Affairs, from the new Silk Road perspective?
Hmm, hadn’t thought about it, really, but fits perfectly. Meanwhile the Fat Controller works on the “tourism” bit, and AST on free trade and the jigsaw puzzle starts to make sense.
Mother jailed for ‘child cruelty’ after rejecting Chinese healthcare system to seek treatment abroad, child taken away and dropped in mental asylum: http://tinyurl.com/pst2zz2
Hemm xi cans ta’ negozju fil-blokokk tas-silg ukoll ?
They’ve got a thing about the Shangri-La hotel, these faux-socialists. Isn’t that where Muscat & Co stayed when they trotted off to China to sell Enemalta and the passport scheme they’d hoped to keep hidden?
Before the legislature is over Muscat will propose leaving the EU. When he wins the next election he will say he has a mandate for it and do a Mintoff on Trichet as Mintoff did with Carrington.
He’ll have to refund all that IIP money he’s planning to rake in.
Who paid for this trip? China? Malta’s taxpayers?
Not the Labour Party, that’s for sure.
The Chinese are clever, sly and always well-briefed.
They know very well that in Toni Abela they have a clown and a non-entity.
They are just providing him with a freebie to keep him happy and neutered.
The poor sod.
“Abela responded by saying that he hopes the two can increase exchanges to bring more benefits to both peoples.”
Reminds me of the ‘shuna’ episode on Teletubi all over again.
Alfred Sant used to call the Times ‘Pravda’. With hindsight, he was quite generous then – it is actually worse than that.
I just love the way the identical motor boats are moored at the pontoon – at an angle, like the vazuni on the windowsills in Birgu.
Everything stage-managed a la chinois.
The old Chinese proverb goes “He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount”.
A very wise observation.