Sino-Scottish relations
Am I the only person who has misgivings about the warm welcome we are giving to Chinese companies acquiring our technologies and our businesses?
China is, after all, a dictatorship where people are imprisoned without trial for their religious and political beliefs.
A country where the free dissemination of information is prevented by a network of secret police.
A country where the biggest companies are run by the military; which is the state.
A country where the general population have limited or no rights to land, property or legal protection.
Are we just bolstering the system?
I don't see anything to suggest otherwise, and it looks like the highest bidder is being welcomed with open arms, irrespective...
China is, after all, a dictatorship where people are imprisoned without trial for their religious and political beliefs.
 |
| Never forget... |
A country where the free dissemination of information is prevented by a network of secret police.
A country where the biggest companies are run by the military; which is the state.
A country where the general population have limited or no rights to land, property or legal protection.
Are we just bolstering the system?
I don't see anything to suggest otherwise, and it looks like the highest bidder is being welcomed with open arms, irrespective...
6 comments:
I must admit to wondering, last night, whether our ambassadorial staff had, after all, developed diplomatic flu with regard to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
Oh come on Angus we've got a Giant Panda out of it, surely it's worth the pact with the devil.
Seriously though, it all feels like desperation to me
The global economic system means little choice; if "we" don't trade with them, then someone else will. By them, meaning not just China but the other BRIC nations which, along with South Korea and a few other countries, are shifting the balance of trade in the first half of this century.
As a side point, Australia is doing very nicely trading with China, selling vast supplies of coal to them. The revenue from that means they've avoided the harshest aspects of the global jitters.
Sounds like the colonial Scotland I hate and know.Oh noe we have the BBC,and just the wan war at the moment.
Angus, sorry, but I have left my spectacles in my former rest home and could not read your posting very clearly. Is it the dictators in China that have got you so exercised? Does wee Brian now control things over there too?
I could have sworn that you were having a poke at the way things are handled by the Storas management down in Uist.
It was the picture of the tanks that has left me confused, please don't tell me that Storas have got another few million pounds to buy some to keep the mutinous crofters in line.
On second thoughts, it would be a champion arrangement to have a few patrolling the island. Just think of the whole panjanderum ofjobs it would create.
That's it! must think positive...
Per the BBC it not Scottish salmon they are after, is anything but Norwegian salmon!
However, relations between the Chinese and Norwegian governments have chilled since the Nobel peace prize was awarded in Oslo to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo.
#Bought and sold for Chinese salmon exports, sic a parcel o'rogues in a nation#
Post a Comment