News: LLL Ganfeng Lithium's Unit To Buy Up To 5% Stake In Mali Lithium, page-144

If it clears the way to production, settles all issues of codes and taxes, I don't mind them handing us the money straight back for their %, and us taking our half of our own money and preparing for life outside of Mali. We are better off with them invested than not, probably.

I do mind us paying for FFX and getting nothing for it, even as an FFX holder. If we are paying for FFX sins it should be via acquiring something (our shares back from them and any remaining FFX hats they printed) rather than an outright robbery.

If we are staying on in Mali, we will never know the truth of what's happened here, same as never knowing what happened to FFX, apart from knowing full well we have just been extorted, which is why disclosing "negotiations" would be an insult to the Malian government.