Certified Legendary Thread China History in the Making

[Lockhart Road]

Nice clue. If it is what I'm thinking of, then there will always be a bit of singing with this and at least 2 participate. You usually start a long term deal with one of these. Is that right LR?

I like this clue, too. Now I have to think up four more that fit with it. Talk about Kochie carrying on like a kid at Xmas. Humour me, people, please.

 

[HighBudget]

I'm a little surprised by nutmeg racist/ jelly comments by some opposition supporters

I don't care if the hawks market themselves in Tassie. So not sure why some care about our foray into china.

They're probably scared that we might end up reaping too many benefits from this venture

 

[PhoenixPower]

I'll be in HK / China next week Lockhart Road - will this announcement be done overseas or home or a bit of both?

i could always crash the party ;-) ruin the deal and become our own Steve Bartman

 

[reCOGnise]

Nice clue. If it is what I'm thinking of, then there will always be a bit of singing with this and at least 2 participate. You usually start a long term deal with one of these. Is that right LR?

Can we expect a bit of Yum Sing Lockhart Road?

 

[OneGreatClub]

There will be a celebration of some kind?

 

[Chachi]

Very interesting thread and clues. I should could them teases instead of clues because I've got NFI what it's going to be apart from some sort of Commercial deal that both parties benefit from.

 

[Prison bar Pete]

Zhou is obviously racked with cancer. He died shortly after in early January 1976. In July that year came the Tangshan earthquake. Gough and Marg were back in China for it. The night of the 'quake they were in a hotel in Tianjin, not too far from the epicentre, which fueled the rumour the Whitlams, dangerously energised by the local liquor, caused the earth to move.
Two months later, Mao died. There is an ancient Chinese saying that a natural disaster of the scale of Tangshan signals the end of a dynasty.

Zhou is obviously racked with cancer. He died shortly after in early January 1976. In July that year came the Tangshan earthquake. Gough and Marg were back in China for it. The night of the 'quake they were in a hotel in Tianjin, not too far from the epicentre, which fueled the rumour the Whitlams, dangerously energised by the local liquor, caused the earth to move.
Two months later, Mao died. There is an ancient Chinese saying that a natural disaster of the scale of Tangshan signals the end of a dynasty.

Nice clue. If it is what I'm thinking of, then there will always be a bit of singing with this and at least 2 participate. You usually start a long term deal with one of these. Is that right LR?

Trying to read between the lines: delegation to bring about a seismic change in Chinese politics/International relations and resultant economic benefits to Australia/South Australia/Port Adelaide. The power of lerve seems to be implied as well - not sure what that entails!

 

[Grave Danger]

Malcolm Turnbull's office:
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/2016-04-08/prime-minister-visit-china

South China Morning Post:
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/dipl...tralias-pm-malcolm-turnbull-lead-biggest-ever

China Daily:
http://www.chinadailyasia.com/business/2016-04/08/content_15413112.html

Xin Hua News Agency:
http://en.apdnews.com/xin-hua/374333.html

MoU Tai Moments in History:
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"Aerial Ping Pong" Diplomacy

 

[Lockhart Road]

Cryptic # 2

Andrew Fagan Looks on uninvited:

Tomorrow we find out what he sees.

 

[OneGreatClub]

A volcano. Andrew Fagan and the AFL will be blown away by this?

 

[raman]

 

[afl2004]

Cryptic # 2

Andrew Fagan Looks on uninvited:
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Tomorrow we find out what he sees.

tomorrow? , do you mean thursday or have we got a early present?

 

[Grave Danger]

"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

 

[OneGreatClub]

"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

It's a rabbit hole?

 

[Grave Danger]

It's a rabbit hole?

#godhatesfages may see it that way. Perhaps he explored Chinese funding for the Brumbies' new headquarters and got nowhere, and ended up face down in a pig sty instead...

 

[OneGreatClub]

#godhatesfages may see it that way. Perhaps he explored Chinese funding for the Brumbies' new headquarters and got nowhere, and ended up face down in a pig sty instead...

He does seem very anti any China thingy

 

[Far Kern]

Nice clue. If it is what I'm thinking of, then there will always be a bit of singing with this.

I've got it! A Chinese Karaoke company called MyKaraoke that will install machines that we get a small profit from in shopping centres?

 

[Prison bar Pete]

Cryptic # 2

Andrew Fagan Looks on uninvited:
View attachment 234033
Tomorrow we find out what he sees.

Hmmm - like an I Spy book. Arts (music, literature), knowledge (sharing), time (long term relationship) and joinery . Is the object in the bottom left a stove & therefore representative of large furnaces perhaps?

 

[OneGreatClub]

There are roots in that hole, we are planting the roots for some big growth.

 

[bacharach]

This is so much more fun having Lockhart Road post clues on this board compared to the Port website clues earlier in the year with the signings....even if no one has NFI. looking forward to understanding them in hindsight tho.

 

[Coobk001]

In b4 Chen signs a contract extension.

 

[Eighteenseventy]

Cryptic # 2

Andrew Fagan Looks on uninvited:
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Tomorrow we find out what he sees.

L.R. you have a copy of the Little Red Book?

" We think to small, like the frog at the bottom of the well, He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well, if he surfaced he would have an entirely different view"

Mao Zedong

 

[Lawnchair Larry]

Chinese buy Arrium........save Whyalla.......simultaneously announce Port Adelaide sponsorship

 

[Janus]

Here's my guess

The Chinese and Australian Governments are going to sign a Memorandum of Understanding for China to invest money into Australia to help develop the country through infrastructure projects, based on the fact that the free trade agreement between Australia and China came into effect on December 20, 2015. China has a long history of investing in foreign countries that have a lot of raw mineral resources and developing the infrastructure of those countries - Africa has been a big investment area for them.

One of the key planks to this is the goodwill generated by sponsorship and cultural awareness in both countries, which is where Port Adelaide comes in as sole representative of Australia's national game in China through AusAID and the Australian Sporting Commission. The AFL receives government funding for its Auskick programs in South Africa, New Zealand and Europe. In China, it won't be the AFL running the program, but Port Adelaide - meaning that any government funding for promoting Australian sports in a foreign country don't get distributed through the league, but go straight to us.

I'm not talking about Auskick per se, because the AFL already has that set up...but a similar program.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Cryptic # 2

Andrew Fagan Looks on uninvited:
View attachment 234033
Tomorrow we find out what he sees.