China reminds us that economically depending upon a totalitarian Communist regime has some downsides

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Key has been shown up for the smoke and mirror deal maker he really is. After putting all our cows in one Beijing Paddock, the meltdown of dairy intensification has simply made the farms China wanted cheaper for them to buy up.

We need China’s tourists, their lactose intolerant baby milk drinkers and their record immigration numbers to keep the property bubble from collapsing so property speculating boomers can get an upgrade in Bali for their vacation this year.

Wellington has slipped into in Beijing’s shadow despite Washington’s TPPA security leash and 5 Eye mass surveillance upgrade. Expect a bloody great big American nuclear ship to  be invited to NZ as tribute to Rome.

The figures being promised from an increase in Chinese tourists are reminiscent of those promised from dairy intensification and the Government seem hell bent on going into public private partnerships with lowest cost capitalism Chinese construction companies to upgrade provincial tourism infrastructure.

With China’s amazing record of infrastructure that collapses, what could possibly go wrong?

If we want a better FTA than Australia got, it looks like we will have to turn a blind eye to China’s aggression in the South China Sea and allow their nationals be returned for torture or life imprisonment in a justice system noted for its corruption and abuse of human rights.

Well that just sounds charming doesn’t it folks?

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John Key was given a masterclass in getting schooled and his own Government’s close personal ties with rich Chinese Businessmen means National Party senior Ministers are as dependent on China’s wallet as the country now is.

11 COMMENTS

  1. Bomber, China is not communist, never was, and can only be so if it has a socialist revolution.
    It’s ‘totalitarianism’ is no worse than the US, Britain, etc because it, like them is capitalist and imperialist, and facing a global crisis.
    It needs its state force to head off a real workers’ revolution.
    Its adventures in pouring concrete into the South China Sea are to set up its a Maginot Line against US encirclement.
    Key is torn between the US and China because NZ is a tiny neo-colony driven by its dependence to beg from both big boys.
    Key is a pathetic pimp for butter in China while he hides behind Yankee gunboats.
    There aint going to be any change that works for the workers of the world without and end to both US and Chinese imperialism.
    Our best allies in defeating both are the US and Chinese working class.
    http://redrave.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/china-and-socialist-future.html

  2. Keys is a rank amateur when it comes to Foriegn policy. You can’t lie about this stuff which is wholly out side his abilities. Key is so bipolar he is a different person when he leaves NZ, ie, pull pony tails, jump on plane and apologise – refuse to give info on NZDF deployment routes, jump on plane and spill the beans.

    At some point and soon. National voters are going to have to accept that they have been voting for a clown.

    • Don’t hold your breath Sam. National voters have shown a remarkable ability to ignore all of our Dear Leader’s multitude of faults that are as plain as day to any sane and rational observer…

      • I know of a handful of national voters personally who have lost there jobs. The irrational national has a chink in that fire wall

  3. So let me get this straight, New Zealand under The John Key is now basically EVERYONE’s little bitch? [slow clap].

  4. The Chinese are buying and trading everywhere in the world Just recently a huge farm in Australia equal in area to a small Chinese province, was sold to them . China has the money thanks to the globalisation policies of the west where manufacturing was shifted to China from the West. NZ corporates participated in this with all NZ iconic brands being manufactured in China so to complain now is pointless. Perhaps future policy should involve thinking ahead about the consequences instead of just short term profit for the shareholders.
    In my opinion Chinese foreign policy appears to concentrate on trade and economic development rather than military aggression and subjugating host countries as we have seen from the USA and earlier the European colonists.
    The trick for politicians will be to protect NZ lifestyles while maintaining our independence.
    Chinese aggression in the South China sea?
    Ninety percent of the shipping through those waters is chinese related. They depend on this route for oil and pretty much everything so why would they not want to protect it. Remember how the USA starved Japan of energy sparking Japan’s involvement in WWII Why does the USA feel the need to “protect” these waterways. The Philippines, Japan and Vietnam are perfectly capable of negotiating with China without the USA projecting its military power to inflame the situation

  5. Correction

    We speculating boomers generally don’t go to Bali for our breaks these days – far too cheap & nasty.

    Think farther afield. Maybe Tuscany or the Algarve.

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