contradictions in latest q report

Can anyone else see a total contradiction in the following two excerpts from the latest Q Report?

Quoting Pursell (29/4/)9):

we have been able to obtain confirmation from confidential sources in Shanghai that the purported CRR/Yunan Jiaming process for nickel laterites has been discredited by a large Chinese group who are now offering an alternative process.

and

in early April 2009, the Company offered CRR ----------------------
A new ‘Australian-type’ joint venture under which CRR would earn equity in the Young project over a
period of years.

END OF EXCERPT

If by implication, they don't believe that CRR can be trusted, why offer to now do a deal with them?

Is this deal just a ploy to deter the CRR group from taking immediate legal action to recover their loan to Jervois - which by now with interest and court costs would amont to quite a large sum, well over the original one million dollars!
Who's to say they won't negate any potential deal with CRR when it suits Pursell just like last time?

I can see why CRR have not bothered to reply even after almost 4 weeks have elapsed since they have received this communication from Pursell.

cheers
Birdseye