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Our response to China's influence in PNG continues to fall well short : Comments

By Jeffrey Wall, published 27/5/2021

PNG Water, a state owned entity, committed to a Port Moresby water project that will cost K450 million – or more than three times Australia's generous grant announced almost at the same time.

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Money, money, money makes the world go around.

Here is a question to balance concerns; how much Chinese money is invested in Australia?
A question seldom asked.

Dan
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 27 May 2021 9:45:09 AM
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A question seldom asked.
diver dan,
I'd like to see the people who sell us out named.
Posted by individual, Thursday, 27 May 2021 11:22:04 AM
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I’ve worked this out over the years Individual, this country is run along the same lines as a corporation. There is a “type” of person, ( for want of a better name), that excels in this environment; the managerial class.

I’ve worked over the same number of years for many corporations, my conclusion is this:
Managers are recruited from the lowest form of spineless grubs.

Have a guess what? Welcome aboard the managerial professional politician we are forced by law to vote for!

Dan
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:50:58 PM
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Some Pacific nations are resisting PRC's debt entrapment. For example the PM elect of Samoa wants out of it but her predecessor seems to be under a stranglehold. You have to wonder if China is deliberately inching its way across the Pacific. When they start mining in Antarctica will Australia be too gutless to object? At least the Chinese are not serious rugby players so there will always be a cultural divide.
Posted by Taswegian, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:58:48 PM
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We cannot outspend China at this time and it would be lunacy to try! But, that doesn't mean w can't hurt them? And given the C.R.A.P. they've served up recently, without due/just cause! That should be our strategy going forward.

We need to embrace nuclear energy as MSR thorium, then use that 1 cent PHKW power, to power the arc furnaces in the locally invented, single-stage steel making, with maximised automation included.

This would mean (green)steel and (green) steel products could be made here and at prices, China could not undercut without costly dumping!

And that goes for aluminium, copper and all the metals. And would mean the extra mining of these metals and lithium etc, would mean all current coal mining and coal miners could be employed in other much more profitable mining endeavours, other than coal!

If China believes it can kill us economically? We need to do what we can, to prove her, so very wrong!

And with just a little more than the currently outraged lectern pounding! Shut the mouth and put money where it now is.

No! And why not? What stops that from happening other than spineless, eternally prevaricating pollies, who have sold their souls to China for an allegorical, forty pieces of silver?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 27 May 2021 1:29:50 PM
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AlanB

Ive pulled you up on this one before.

It’s Judas who sold his sole for “thirty” pieces of silver. Viz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_pieces_of_silver

And it’s Ali Baba and the “forty” thieves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba_and_the_Forty_Thieves

Both the examples though, are highly applicable, (as you point out), to politicians.

Dan
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 27 May 2021 1:45:11 PM
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