Chris Lewis,

You keep blaming the CCP instead of blaming the Chinese nation-state.

How many members are there in the CCP?

How many people are there outside the CCP who support the CCP?

MR O, I will blame who I like, as is your right.

Don't assume you know everything; you don't.

Yours is just a opinion, as is mine.

If you think it is smart blaming the Chinese people, well that is your choice.

I choose to see things differently

Chris Lewis,

How many members are there in the CCP?

How many people are there outside the CCP who support the CCP?

Well China has now cranked up the game a notch or two.
They have called in BHP & Rio Tinto and put them on the mat.
They have been told their prices are too high and as the spot
price is too high also.
So they appear to be demanding that those companies must reduce their
prices.
Now if they did that would they fall under the Competition Rules and
be prosecuted ?
The Chinese are squealing so tighten the screws !

trouble is that Australian policy makers live in dreamland
Chris Lewis,
Yes and, this takes a long time to filter through just as it does now with Whitlam's policies !

Does anyone know if China has paid for the coal on those 60 to 80 ships ?
If it is FOB, then Australian sellers can say, tough tities its your
coal, ta ta and China will receive the dumarage charges from the ship owners.
If they don't pay the shipping companies they won't get anything anywhere.