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According to Gordon Brown, the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is ready to speak with the Dalai Lama. “I spoke to Premier Wen this morning and I made it absolutely clear that there had to be an end to violence in Tibet,” Brown said. “The premier told me that, subject to two things that the Dalai Lama has already . . . → Read More: The dragon capitulates Seized, occupied and colonised by invading Han Chinese in 1950, Tibet is a litmus test for countries who claim to uphold human rights. For years, most nations, including Australia and New Zealand, have paid only lip service to human rights where China is concerned, frightened that an angry dragon will incinerate existing trade agreements and close . . . → Read More: Kowtowing to China Amazingly, the vigilant Chinese authorities have not blocked Beyond The Fringe, according to the three location test at Website Pulse. Not so at the Great Firewall of China test, where every site I tried on several servers besides this one was blocked. Perhaps the test server they use is blocked. Beyond The Fringe is also listed on . . . → Read More: Sneaking over the Great Firewall Despite the extraordinarily generous largesse of the Whorestralian taxpayer subsidising her mature age Mandarin language lessons to the estimated tune of $70,000 (that’s RMB430,000), it appears our investment in Amandarin Vanstone has not borne fruit. The $70,000 could include … a $3,600 airfare to China for the Senator’s teacher. New Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews is . . . → Read More: Outside noisy, inside empty – old Chinese proverb With the passing of the Ides of March, we have strong suspicions that the second market correction may be over – will there be a third? It is possible the subdued buying of resources – first copper, then zinc – by the Chinese in the past little while was deliberately orchestrated to engineer prices down . . . → Read More: Of SubPrimes and Pigs in Shit We have completed a week of concerted re-positioning. Although the POG has remained in the 660-670 range, our preciouses haven’t shone as much as we would have liked. Finally our patience with CTO expired, and we sold our holdings, along with the static MMNO. With this stake we increased our NTU holding at 81c. These little . . . → Read More: Breathe In, Breathe Out |
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