Winenut
GO AVZ!!!!
Well, has Felix bothered to tell Andrew that he's on the outer as far as he's concerned, and the Chinese have been restored to flavour of the month?
Only last week, this is what Kiki reported about A Forrest:
But since his return from his historic visit to China, where he was received by his counterpart President Xi Jinping, Felix Tshisekedi has just changed his position, now pleading to restore the exclusivity of the Inga III project to the Chinese of Three Gorges, from whom he had withdrawn in 2021 for lack of achievement, ceding him to the Fortescue group of Andrew Forrest, who in turn risk being victims of the same playfulness of the DR Congo, as for his compatriots from AVZ MINERALS on the lithium from Manono.
In 2020 and 2021, Félix Tshisekedi seemed to have embraced the cause of Westerners with the Americans in mind, in the war with the Chinese over the monopoly of DR Congo's resources, over Inga III, over Manono's lithium, even granting the license to operation at DATCHOM overseen by the Australians of AVZ, in particular on the battery development project.
But now, for a while now, the Australians of Fortescue and AVZ no longer seem to be part of the Congolese head of state's taste buds, the Congolese head of state would have asked his government to favor a return to the concession of the exclusivity, not only of Inga III, but of the entire extension of the Inga project to the Chinese of Three Gorges.
By Kiki Kienge - June 13, 2023
Seems to me China is pulling out all the stops to prevent Australia Inc doing anything in the DRC, and get themselves back in favour. (and your Airbus Albo wants to be mates with them again FFS)
Wonder if Nigel and Andrew talk much about it?
I feel so much better are reading that.....
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