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原文
Chinese 'lifeline' heralded
DAVID KILLICK
May 09, 2009 12:00am
AUSTRALIANS had nothing to fear and much to gain from increased Chinese investment in Australia.
Visiting Hobart to address participants in the state's first Chinese Cultural Day at The Friends' School, Mr Shen said he was pleased to see the growing interest in Chinese language and culture around the nation.
But he said an occasional lack of understanding still hampered the bilateral relationship.
"Despite all the progress I also realise some, or a few Australian people, still lack a comprehensive understanding of China today," Mr Shen said.
"Some Australians are anxious over Chinese investment in Australia.
"They worry Chinese enterprises will control Australian energy and the mineral resources.
"I must say this is not factual but a biased viewpoint towards China.
"Chinese companies investing in Australia, whether state-owned or private, have no wish to take control of Aussie assets or mineral resources.
"On the contrary, the Chinese investment will provide a fresh lifeline for Australian companies and protect local employment, particularly in the difficult period right now."
Mr Shen's comments came at the start of a day-long festival of Chinese cinema, music, dancing, food, poetry, history and more at the school.
Friends' School principal John Green said events like the cultural day and the school's relationship with the Jin Yuan Senior School in Shanghai and exchange visits to China boosted Friends' language and cultural education program.
Mr Green said there were several challenges staging a comprehensive event in a city with a small Chinese community but the benefits were well worth the effort.
"When we did our strategic planning a few years ago, we looked at what our kindergarten children are going to need when they move into the adult world," he said.
"We thought the language for our region was going to be Chinese and if our students were fluent in Chinese it would be a great asset to them when they were adults."
评论
The Friends school is opportunistic to be providing Chinese as a language option in their curriculum. However, it is a long stretch to give China an unreserved praise. Yes China is verging on becoming Australia's largest trading partner. Yes China is one of the largest markets on the planet and yes they have made substantial leaps. But no they are not a democratic nation; many are oppressed by an aging communist regime. China is not a robust trading partner, many, many of their products are damaged, have poor production and foreign investment have little authority to scrutinise a product’s quality within that nation. Poor goods produced frequently, see recent example of dangerous toys and poisoned milk. China also has very poor infrastructure, many goods are damaged moving from one place to another and supply and demand is further hindered by accidents, old transport systems and heavy bureaucracy that serves the state and not the company. Finally, tell me, just what has China given as insurance that the products they supply have been produced free of poor labour, and non pirated enterprise? How can you invest in a country that will not protect your intellectual property but will steel it and your product from you and provide slack recourse for your trouble? China is not stable, 100s of people in its growing educated population are thinking - thinking and the state do not mix. There will be growing difficulties. China is a crock and survives on the loans to America and its economy of scale but offers less product quality and quality insurance with little culture or future. It's people understandf this more that we think and are bound to respond to the communist regime.
Posted by: David of Hobart 6:00pm today
Wait 'til they start treating us like Tibet! The One-Child Policy is great but the initial crop of brats, prior to new anti-spoilt-kid parenting strategies being introduced and whom all went to schools where every kid in the playground was an only child, unfortunately will be leading China in a few years time. Hence the dramatic rise of violent crime and skyrocketing divorce rates. Does Chinese culture have quite the same strong concept of personal honour such as exists among the Japanese? I don't think so and neither do any other people I know who've been to China.
Posted by: Peter Arnold of Launceston 2:35pm today
Sorry - will never agree with this. Ever. Look at how upset the Chinese are that the US dollar dropped because they have invested heavily in the US $. It also means they can buy up more of it. It is bad enough that we outsource so much industry to other nations. It is bad enough that anything made in China is so much cheaper that made in Australia. We do NOT need to sell off the country as well as a way of making a quick buck.
Posted by: Michelle of TASMANIA 12:04pm today
The worry about Chinese investment is not as simple as whether or not they will control Australian companies and their resources, it's also about the ethics of the Chinese Government. Why would we want a dictatorial communist country having any more control over Australian business? I am all for foreign investment in Australia, and toning down of nationalistic views, but not when it comes from a country that has a history of human rights abuses and continual denial of freedom (of speech, religion et al.) to their own people, complete disregard for the environment etc, etc.I love many aspects of Chinese culture, it is a truly wonderful country full of many wonderful people, but China really needs to 'clean up their own backyard' before putting another foot into others.
Posted by: Ethical investor of Hobart 11:25am today
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