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Memorandum of Advice International Commercial Law

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Chinese claims about the importance of Australian mineral deposits to its own industry are only likely to make Australian officials even more nervous. Dawkins cites the following as an example of such a claim:

In November China pressed forward with a number of first 30 percent initiatives, to take advantage of an opportunity to obtain or strengthen equity positions within Australian mining enterprises, both minerals and coal, at historically low prices.... At the globally significant China Mining Conference in Beijing in mid-November a Chinese official, fielding questions after a related presentation, stated publicly that responding quickly to such opportunities offered by financially weakened minerals and metals suppliers around the world was not only clearly in the interests of individual Chinese firms but was also their national duty

While Chinese corporate leaders are, of course, perfectly entitled to make such claims, it is also certainly reasonable that Australian officials would be made nervous by an attitude. While such feelings on the part of any government official must be (of course) considered to be extra-legal, they are directly relevant to any proposed investment......