http://dazzlepod.com/gifiles/1148174/?q=gold

From Jun 7, 2010, by Former Australian Senator"Chit chat from a BBQ last night. 
    
Talking about the Chinese :" They[Chinese] refuse to believe that they
   have a right to receive a mining lease subject only to complying with
   relevant environmental permitting conditions.  They think you have no
   credibility unless you tell them they need to bribe someone!!!
 

 From some other source : 
     - of a foreign company that had paid for prospecting rights near Dalian
     and when they finally found gold the government told them that they
     couldn't dig it up for environmental reasons. Now of course the Chinese
     are getting ready to dig it up. 
     Another group (who I know the GM of as well) who had gone through 7
     years of prep, building local infrastructure, getting screwed by local
     forms and extorted by the local security orgs was finally ready to begin
     extraction when the Chinese gave them some BS reason and kicked them out
     of the project. The Chinese are now of course removing that gold from
     the ground themselves. "