Sunday, November 8, 2009

Chinese presence in Papua New Guinea has more questions than answers

While I wouldn't go any further than merely acknowledge Chinese presence in Papua New Guinea and what China tries to do for Papua New Guinea, I still have some unanswered questions:

What does Papua New Guinea government need to know about China? What do you and I need to know about Chinese companies, businesses, be their customers, vendors, or partners, employees, etc...? Who are the Chinese? What is their world view? What do they see as the proper process for making decisions? What are the goals of China's approach toward the Pacific and Papua New Guinea in general?

In other words, the Papua New Guinea government, her citizens, and the landowners alike need to know the Chinese business practices before we establish any dialogue. Evidently, the Papua New Guinea government is indoctrinated by the Chinese 'yen' as this is taking precedent over our interests and that of our poor landowners'.

I wonder whether or not the Papua New Guinea government has answers to some of these questions to inform our local landowners where some of these projects are located. If the Papua New Guinea government does not have answers to some of these questions, our landowners are in the dark. Therefore, their resources are in the hands of the Papua New Guinea government and the Chinese companies.


I want to reiterate on an earlier post I made on Kange Nga Kona that, Papua New Guinea mining laws needed to be rectified to suit the landowners and not the third parties so that our landowners need something to fall back when the Papua New Guinea government and foreign companies exploit and keep them low and dry.

As a Papua New Guinean, I will always support a good government that has the interest of it's people ahead of other things and a foreign company who has the landowners' interest before their business interests. I want to see landowners benefit immensely from what is theirs on their own land but not the contrary.

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