It is in the Chinese interest to bring the court case forwards, everyday which passes they look as a country more vulgar.
Might even be smart to withdraw from the ICC case, wankers.
And what had to happen happened: China calls into question the credibility of the IGF Report on Sicomines!
Will Jules Alingete burn his wings?
It is not impossible after its own rant, namely the Final Report of the Sicomines Investigation started with a 60-day fact-finding mission ordered on June 24, 2022, but ended on August 24 of the same year.
Indeed, this mission did not approach the General Management of the Sino-Congolese joint venture until August 29, 2022, that is to say out of time.
More seriously, without the knowledge of the Directorate General of the Dgda and the Minister of Finance - yet the competent authority to issue, suspend or abolish this type of duty - it ordered the suspension of customs exemption duties.
Thus, at the start already, the IGF purposely put itself at fault; which does not look like Jules Alingete, reputed to be prudent...
Has the boss of the IGF been under internal or external pressure to obtain the dissolution of Sicomines at all costs, failing the suspension of the activities of this company which has never been 100% Chinese as the opinion think so, but rather Congolese and Chinese? We wouldn't like to know.
Still, once the wine was drawn, all that remained for the IGF was to drink it.
Presumably, this is what happened between September 2022 and February 2023, a period during which Jules Alingete gave Sicomines a hard time.
First by telling her that she had no legal existence; then by imposing demands on it, the first of which concerns the renegotiation of the Sino-Congolese contract.
However, the thesis of the non-existence of Sicomines with regard to the Congolese legal arsenal has turned against the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Indeed, how a legally non-existent entity had to associate Gecamines, a legally constituted company!
And how, for years, Gecamines continued to receive dividends from a non-existent company!
And how, this non-existent company has it financed infrastructures that the Government of the Republic puts to its credit!
Realizing the nonsense of this requirement, which is likely to cover the country with ridicule, the IGF renounced it to impose the renegotiation of the Sino-Congolese contract on the basis of about fifteen requirements, however, falling within the competence of the Government.
No one is supposed to ignore that the Grouping of Chinese Companies (GEC) is against not with a service or a public establishment, but the Congolese Government represented by the Ministry of Itpr.
The following is the really muscular reaction of the spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the DRC and the General Management of Sicomines on the same day: February 17, 2023.
In his comment, the spokesperson states that the embassy “learned with amazement of the publication of the report on the Chinese Contract by the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) of the Democratic Republic of Congo”.
The Embassy, he continues, "regrets to note that the report, whose content is full of prejudice, does not correspond to reality, cannot be considered credible and has no constructive value".
Affirming that "The Chinese Contract is a fine example of a win-win partnership" and that this is "an undeniable fact", all the more so since "Many tangible achievements prove that the Congolese side has effectively benefited from this cooperation", the embassy notes the position of the Chinese government in two sentences:
First, China "encourages Chinese companies to work with their Congolese partner to improve cooperation by making it more beneficial to the Congolese side, and to resolve disagreements through friendly and reasonable dialogue".
Secondly, China says it "will firmly defend the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises and resolutely retaliate against any violation of the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises."
However, we should never come to that since the Sino-Congolese contract provides in its article 20 the mechanism for the settlement of any dispute: either amicably, or, in the event of persistent disagreement, arbitration by the ICSID ( International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes).
As for Sicomines, it promises to assess "the follow-up that should be given in order to defend its rights" and recalls that "The DRC is a state of law where the right of defense is enshrined and guaranteed by the Constitution".
It considers that "In particular, the security of private investments, national or foreign, is guaranteed in the DRC and the commitments made to investors cannot be flouted".
It is almost, in duet, the answer of the shepherd to the shepherdess.
Controversial, the IGF Report could make some leave their feathers, others their skin, which amounts to the same thing.
Once again, the advisers - who are rarely good payers - engage the DRC in an arm wrestling which we should have avoided.
For John Omombo, former communication officer of the Sino-Congolese Program Coordination Office, “Congo has no better friend than the Chinese”. 
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Here's a thought Old China,
