Provincial legislators of the tiny Dutch province Friesland asked for an investigation of five official trips by government officials and local companies to China, and five return visits of Chinese delegations in 2005 and 2006. The province claims, as does every village outside China, a special relationship with China.
Those ten visits have now led to a whopping turnover of 70,000 euro, reports the local nieuwspaper (in Dutch of course). There was no overview of the total costs of the ten trips and will most likely have been shared between the provincial government and the companies. A liaison office in Sichuan was supposed to be self supporting by the beginning of this year, but the province decided to prolong its grant for another six months.
This kind of investigations cannot be done enough.
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