MoreThe Chinese Government Are ‘Bastards,’ Says an Australian MPAustralian legislator and mining tycoon Clive Palmer has “most sincerely” apologized for a blistering attack on the Chinese government, reports the BBC. During a live debate shown last week by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the 60-year-old billionaire — whose own Palmer United Party holds the balance of power in Australia’s Senate — slammed Chinese officials as “bastards” and “mongrels” who “shoot their own people.” “They’re communist, they shoot their own people, they haven’t got a justice system and they want to take over this country,” he said at the time.