Only trying to make sense of the deal that was struckWhy was it...

Only trying to make sense of the deal that was struck
Why was it so cheap?
Not anti Chinese at all
Anyone thinking that is drawing a long bow

My intention was to point to a potential commercial vulnerability when the purchase of an Australian company is being negotiated with two partners where one of the partner companies is controlled by the Chinese centralist government while an arm of Australian company being bought needs the permissions from that same Chinese centralist government to proceed inside China

As I said IF that is the situation that occurred then in my opinion the Dutch would have been quite happy to have that leverage

More Australian companies are being bought by Chinese companies

Thats all well and good
China is looking after their needs
We Australia needs to look after ours

IMO Australian companies would more likely get a better deal when negotiating their sale to a Chinese company if the Australian company being bought was separated from the ventures inside China

We may have to use separate companies to operate inside China

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