The Chinese Connections

This week, the Maltese government will be signing a medium-term cooperation agreement with China in Beijing. The Maltese delegation will be accompanied by some Maltese journalists to witness the event.

The interest of the labour government to renew past cooperations with China seem rather strange and obscur. Indeed, the fact that the goverment refused to publish the recent purchase agreement of part of Enemalta clearly shows that the government is not willing to inform the public on its real intentions regarding China. The recent introduction of the passport scheme also suggest that this could have been targeted for mainly Chinese wealthy citizens who seek to establish themselves in the EU. China is renowned of having serious issues with human rights, freedom of information and corruption (just a few days ago the former deputy chairman of the Party’s Central Military Commission has been accused of taking money and properties in exchange of promotions and favours) and although the newly elected
It is understandable that the Chinese government is will willing to invest in a loss making state
Back in December 2013, The European Council has backed the European Commission’s proposals to impose definitive anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures on imports of solar panels from China. The duties have been fixed at an average of 47.7% and are applied for two years. Hence, the final anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duty rates will apply only to those exports from China which do not meet the conditions set out in the undertaking.