*No I don't think they will immediately fold . I doubt anyone would think that . If the DRC/China's first line of attack up until 3 weeks ago was to run AVZ bust before the ICSID hearing , then I guess the Locke funding "might" have an influence moving forward . I think we need to remember AVZ are pushing for 2 different outcomes . The first is a negotiated outcome . The second is the ICSID outcome . Without funding neither could be possible .
*If the plan was to run AVZ coffers dry then how could a deal have been close ? The Ministry of Mines themselves only a few months ago stated a deal has never been close . That's why we need Locke Funding .
I'd ask a different question . Can we now get an outcome ? Either Negotiated or ICSID . Did our chances of getting an outcome increase with the Locke Funding ? I'd like to think our chances of at least an ICSID outcome have increased considerably .
Why not call the dog by it's real name?
It is not DRC/China, but China/DRC.
Any money pumped into the DRC by any organisation, is immediately syphoned off by the corrupt fuckers and monetised into expensive watches, real estate all over the world and expensive shiny cars. The more blink the better.
5, 6 centuries ago, the European 'explorers' used mirrors and marbles, nothing has changed.
China is fully aware of this and couldn't give a rat's arse, simply because it suits their final ambitions, get as cheap as possible and without losing any lives huge mineral deposits to be able to control the world.
Control of the world is their end game.
They will use any method to achieve this, legal, or illegal, all in the name to further China.
To achieve that they have completely fucked entire Africa over and can make Africa jump the way Xi wants them to jump.
And there one has to understand that China doesn't mean China, but means the upper echelons of the Chinese communist party, which is an organisation more ruthless and corrupt than Putin, prepared to knock their own comrades off, if they don't tow the line, or enrich themself without taking the hierarchy in consideration.
That is what AVZ is dealing with.
Shane the absolute fuckhead from Tasmania is so far up himself and so confused with his million aliases, that he can't see and understand that he is being used in this complete shemozzle, he is feeling mighty important.
I can't wait till the law catches up with the fucking idiot.
As they say 'pride comes before the fall'.
Don't be too surprised if Shane morphs himself into another identity, fairly soon, adding to his enormous list of fukhead personalities.
Even Sigmund Freud would have to stop all his work and going to the pub, to deal with this obsessive dangerous idiot.