(08-02-2022, 11:32 PM)Thryleon date Wrote:Sure, they cant be trusted politically, but they are a trading partner, last I checked the majority of space junk has been generated by none other than the USA or Russia (pick 1 it would be more accurate) and the Indian Ocean near Malaysia is a far cry from Jindabyne in NSW.Firstly, the media plays on paranoia, distrust and hatred, they pick up on it, it is the media version of blood in the water!
In regional areas China has been buying up lots of rural property, then they close up shop and bring in imported workers, I know this because I have a contact who was just about to sign a big deal to sell a large cattle property(> 50Kha) and refused to sell to them when he found out they were going to kibosh all his long serving staff and replace them with imported workers and managers. Regretfully he had to sell to Elders which he saw as the lesser of two evils, but still very distasteful.
So I suspect the media a playing on the regional distrust of China.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"