all,Just gilding the gold here, but the last hope you have with...

all,

Just gilding the gold here, but the last hope you have with getting any return from CTO is if the current Chinese interests holding discussions with CTO bite the bullet and offer a TO.

CTO helped that cause when CTO deliberately re-classified themselves as explorers rather than producers to avoid the on-going catastrophe of CTO's failed production announcements.

As producer a foreign TO must submit to FIRB, but TO of an explorer doesn't.

Frying pan into the fire. If I ever get condemned to be hung by the neck until I cheer up, I select ML to do the knot tying.