Chinese visit

[Keith Tindell]

The big hoo ha today with the Chinese visit, amazing how principles regarding human rights etc, and condemnation of such in the past, can be cast aside when money is involved. One wonders if this is Osbourne hedging his bets if we vote NO to the EU, casting his eye for replacement trade, KT

[Captain Kong]

He is thinking, Get in there before the germans or french.
Brian.

[Ivan Cloherty]

He is thinking, Get in there before the germans or french.
Brian.

Germans and French don't do home deliveries, we know the Chinese do!

[John Callon]

Brian, the Germans and French have been trading with China for the past 10 years. I think it is more a case of trying to catch up hence all the pomp and pagentry.
Regards
John

[j.sabourn]

Maybe paying a visit to see what sort of conditions Mao worked under when he was employed in a London Hotels restaurant all those years ago. Or even heard about the new Labour Leader and think he is on his way up. Australia has a lot of business with China, why not. Politics is Politics the rest is Bull####. All these people who stand there with placards I wonder sometimes are they only going by what the newspapers tell them. Or even if they know the situation of China through the past couple of centuries. Maybe some of them are being used by rentamob to advance the aims of some. Cheers JS

[happy daze john in oz]

In the 14th and 15th centuries China was the then known worlds leading economy, if it continues the way it is then by the end of this century it will be again. They re very shrewd businessmen an it pays to be on the right sde of them. Oz has jus completed a free trade deal with them and today the Labor leader, ex union leader, has agreed to support it. Thousands of jobs may be created by is deal, no doubt Cameron wants some of that.

[John Pruden]

we are going cap in hand to the French and china for money to build nuclear power plants WHY scrap the high speed train set that's not going to work anyway and spend the dosh on our own power when they are built the boffins tell us our power will cost double what it is already??? begging bowls at the ready what have we become why not ask the eu for the money we pay enough in it?? jp

[John Arton]

Although nuclear power can guarantee electricity for years to come, it comes at a great cost, not only in building the power stations but also in the cost of storing the waste fuel.
Surely in this day and age the boffins can figure out a way to extract and burn safely and cleanly our greatest natural resource ===coal, of which we have sufficient for generations to come. The argument that it is the "wrong" type of coal is just b.s. to me. Even though our coal is in deep mines there are ways of extracting it cleanly and safely.
rgds
JA

[Captain Kong]

Chenoble and Fukoshima are still no go areas. reported yesterday that a worker there has now got Cancer from the Radiation. Many died from the Radiation in Chenoble, My son worked on the six helicopter Pilots who were dropping concrete onto it to stop the radiation, when he was a Doctor in the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Centre in Seattle in 1990, all six died.
Is that what we need here?
Too many stupid Greens in this world.
Brian.

[Frederick Lacey]

Most of my toys as far back as the early Thirties were stamped "Made in Hongkong" nothings changed was still China.

F.