However, just a thought.....
Are these cases surfacing just now, because FT is trying to do a deal with the USA?
It would not surprise me that the Chinese have their finger prints all over this. Why not 12 months ago?
Felix's entourage being fraudulently active ripping the DRC off is nothing new.
China absolutely does not want the USA broker a deal with FT, it is not just the money.
It has much more to do with the power games China can play at the moment, with their almost monopoly over rare earths. They have the entire world by the nuts atm.
China is even using it in their battle with the USA over tariffs.
China will use any possible dirty trick one can dream up, to stop FT making any deal with the USA, including lithium.
In my opinion it is also exactly the same with Locke taking AVZ to court just now.
And Chaina of course saying, it isn't me, I don't know nothing!
And at the same time, the rumours coming from China that Xi Jinping is really Xi Limping are becoming stronger every day.
I don't know if they push people out of windows in Beijing, like they do in Moscow.
But if I was Xi, I would stay away from windows, better safe than sorry.
All IMO.
Fuck Zijin.