Experience and knowledge - Clinton Dines on China

Comments on “Nursing old wounds”, interview with Clinton Dines by Business Spectator's Isabelle Oderberg, 5/10/2009, http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Clinton-Dines-China-BHP-Billiton-pd20091002-WF39D?OpenDocument&src=sph

The report starts with the following:

“Clinton Dines was BHP Billiton's man in China for 21 years and has lived there since the late 1970s. He talks with Business Spectator's Isabelle Oderberg to explain:
· How the Stern Hu case dredged up existing anxieties on both sides of the China/Australia divide
· The Chinese economy has in many ways decoupled itself from the rest of the world
· There will be mistakes, or even disasters, as the Chinese ramp up investment activity overseas and seek to secure supply through M&A
· There is an assumption that the Chinese want to be like westerners – they don't, they want to be Chinese
· You can argue that political progress has been slow, but it has been vast”

It shows Clinton Dines’ experience, understanding and knowledge of China.

He’s got remarkable understanding and insights of China.