[Salopbaggie]

I don't dispute your dodgy dealing prospective, it is the saying all Chinese business are the same comment, I questioned. I do not really understand your MG Rover comment or why you are blaming the Chinese. As I understood it, the fault clearly lay with John Towers, Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson and John Edwards. MG Rover was initially purchased by BMW, BMW then sold it to the Phoenix Consortium, who were an English company that over 5 years ran MG Rover into the ground. They even managed to unify Labour and the Tories with Kenneth Clarke criticising the 'Phoenix Four,' calling their actions "disgraceful". Lord (Peter) Mandelson said the Phoenix group had not shown an "ounce of humility" about the firm's demise. After MG was un-saveable, their assets were ordered to be sold off and a Chinese company did buy them for the sum of their parts.

The 1,000,000 + Hyghurs, all I can say to that is their treatment is a national outrage, but that is the Government actions, not the businesses. I think self enterprise has never been that big under Chinese communism.

The reason the Government stopped the 5G bid was the government masters in Washington told them to, they viewed the same evidence as Congress and decided to let the deal go ahead, it was only when the USA started jumping up and down the government took the actions they did. From my perspective I do agree with the decision to remove the 'sensitive side' of 5G from the contract. But there again I also objected to the Maggie Thatcher government selling off nationalised industries at rip off prices, to people who they knew would buy them on day 1 and sell them on day 2, knowing most would be brought up by foreign interests, I am still waiting for the check for my percentage of the sale. I think we can agree though that Lai is a dodgy piece of something nasty and the quicker he is gone from our club the better.