Stern Hu – The Chinese Communist justice system is just another instrument of the Revolution. It is just that right now it is tactically convenient that its justice system imitate bourgeois justice practice especially in the developing areas which are receiving Western technology wholesale.
However many Australian businessmen would be surprised to find out that much “ordinary commercial practice” may be criminal.
Conspiracy to cheat and defraud is one of the areas not fully explored.
The old Red Bulletin's Business section used to be headed “Business, Robbery etc”
Misuse of confidential information is dealt with severely in our civil law. Such misuse could easily be an “overt act” for the purposes of a conspiracy charge. Industrial intelligence is a very murky area.
The “law” is likely to be much more severe in China.
Hopefully the facts will emerge.
Meanwhile the Australian Government's attitude, that Stern Hu be afforded decent treatment, seems to be correct.
And Australian companies better get much stronger and pertinent advice when dealing with Chinese “government” corporations.
And a little history might help. Starting with the United Kingdom's wars to force opium consumption on China. The Olympic Games hardly up for that and everything else.
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China and Stern Hu
Paul Kelly seems to have the balance right even if he is bit soft on what sort of regime Communist China really is. But an assumption of total innocence may also be naive.
Our security people at the very highest level should look into the matter crisply and with a hard edge. Much of the other side of Hu's emails should be with his employers and other contacts. And who knows what ?
And what about giving China first refusal rights for a stabilising period ? In foreign trade one does not get to choose the political nature of the other party. We should be perspicacious.
And even Communist regimes do not last forever. It is no accident that the Tianmen Square statue look like the Statue of Liberty. The more advanced China becomes the more likely that its people will require their liberty.And the Chinese comrades know this. Itis a conundrum.
Our security people at the very highest level should look into the matter crisply and with a hard edge. Much of the other side of Hu's emails should be with his employers and other contacts. And who knows what ?
And what about giving China first refusal rights for a stabilising period ? In foreign trade one does not get to choose the political nature of the other party. We should be perspicacious.
And even Communist regimes do not last forever. It is no accident that the Tianmen Square statue look like the Statue of Liberty. The more advanced China becomes the more likely that its people will require their liberty.And the Chinese comrades know this. Itis a conundrum.
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