The Professor who highlighted National are merely a front for Chinese business interests receives threats and has her home broken into

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Martyn Bradbury
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If we had a functioning news service staffed with people who understood the basic power dynamics of NZ and had a tiny amount of intellectual curiosity, this would lead the 6pm News bulletins tonight…

Professor links break-ins to work on China

A New Zealand academic who made international waves researching China’s international influence campaigns has linked a number of recent break-ins to her work.

University of Canterbury professor Anne-Marie Brady, speaking today from Christchurch to the Australian Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee in Canberra, outlined three recent events which caused her concern.

“I had a break-in in my office last December. I received a warning letter, this week, that I was about to be attacked. And yesterday I had a break-in at my house,” she said.

She said this weeks’ burglary at her Upper Riccarton home was particularly suspicious.

“I had three laptops – including one used for work – stolen. And phones. [Other] valuables weren’t taken. Police are now investigating that.”

Brady also said her employer at Canterbury University had been pressured following earlier work on China’s Antarctic policy and – following a recent visit to China – sources she had talked to were subjected to visits from authorities.

“People I’ve associated with in China, just last year, were questioned by the Chinese Ministry of State Security about their association with me.”

These disclosures came after New South Wales MP Julian Leeser asked Brady whether her recent profile on the subject had resulted in any blowback.

…at a time when one of China’s best friends, Judith Collins, is about to win the leadership of the National Party, one of the few brave academics prepared to point out the power and influence Chinese interests have over our largest political party is receiving threats and her house broken into.

Having a Chinese spy actually inside the National Party is bad enough, but  intimidating academics prepared to tell the public about China’s influence inside our political system is now going beyond dangerous into something darker.

 

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24 COMMENTS

  1. Yes great stuff Martyn,

    I wanted of what I saw in Kenya in 1970 when as a young kiwi was in a tour of overseas and in Nairobi I was warned then not to confront the political issues of Chinese takeover of the small business communities surrounding that city.

    As the Africans were suffering from loss of their small businesses to Chinese gangs taking over then.

    Only after a year later while in Canada i read about a large number of ‘Chinese Nationals’ were sent out of Kenya for extortion.

    So we are seeing the same activities here now sadly and national party hopeful Judith Collins was seeding this activity going some time back.

    Well well, where is the gutless media now eh?????

  2. I’ve met a number of militant far-right Chinese in NZ.
    China heavily indoctrinates it’s population. For many of the individuals I’ve met – the ones that truly “make it” through China’s punishing, military state systems – aggression is literally all they know. They say things like how much they hate New Zealanders; NZers are so lazy; don’t want to work etc. They frequently mention the welfare system here, which utterly enrages them and despises them to no end. They say things like how NZ should be more like China, China so much better etc.

    And yet when I ask them why they came or stay here, they say something like, “oh I love New Zealand’s freedom”, or, “oh best place to raise kids”.
    But their actions here, for many of the ones I’ve met, are usually are the opposite of the Kiwi way of life – they aim for maximum aggression, violence, and exploitation – always to the maximum extent without getting caught. And they’re extremely tough to open up, to get them to think – because they’ve never had to. For many of the ones I’ve met, almost always male, they see themselves as alphas, see every other person as a “competitor” that literally must be killed. And they have simply learned that a strategy of maximal violence always works – they’ve literally never experienced “not-killing” their “competitors”. These individuals (not Chinese people in general) are truly terrifying to get to know closely.

    Not all Chinese in NZ are so bad of course – some are lovely – but they’re usually the ones that have struggled. I just wish it was “one or two individuals”.

    Brady’s work has been courageous and she continues to shine a much-needed light on this phenomena. I hope she is supported through this and is able to continue her work and documentation in these areas. Her work shows the mafia in operation, and they hate that and want more than anything to silence individuals like her.

    The corrupt National Party are responsible here. They have simply welcomed aggressive erosion of the New Zealand way of life. They plunder and pollute without a care; if things become bad they’ll be the first ones gone. For members of the National party, they see exploiting others as the path to greener pastures for themselves – they literally make their living by throwing all others under the bus. They are in bed with wealthy Chinese.

    • I have heard similar right wing kind of comments by immigrant Chinese coming from Mainland China. Their loyalty is often to their native country only, and if they care about NZ, it is only coming second.

      Hence the waving of Chinese flags by hundreds living here, when their President or so come and visit NZ Inc.

      And so many NZers shut both eyes when they are confronted by this, as they are too afraid to be labeled a xenophobe or ‘racist’, while their criticism may be justified.

  3. “Intimidating academics prepared to tell the public about China’s influence inside our political system is now going beyond dangerous into something darker.”

    Agreed. It will highly informative to see whether the police actually investigate the burglary of Professor Brady’s house properly. My prediction is they’ll conduct another Mossad passport-theft style whitewash to avoid upsetting some important National Party donors and trading partners.

    • agreed with the last two posts from LOSTRELIC and SIMONM.

      I know some Chinese here, and they are very aggressive, and want it all their way with no fair play, so if national thought they would come here to ‘enrich the country” it is them that they will enrich at our expense so he time to call the stop to migration from China is now because we will be overcome with these carpetbaggers and loose our country if not, and i am so sorry to see this also happen in Toronto and Vancouver where i also has been, as the Chinese are overtaking these cities also.

      • Well then you might not want to know what I think about your average kiwi. Suffice to say stupid people who don’t vote allow these things to happen. And stupid people who do vote allow these things to happen. And this stupid goes right back to the signing of the treaty and has persisted for a hundred years or more, well before China started getting involved.

        • Because like Taiwan, Tibet is integral to China; as is Outer Mongolia, and the Amir River region, and the Iron Triangle, and 3rd world nation development. And because of there proximity to China’s 1.3bln population and there $ none can resist the pull of mainland China.

          When an oppressive nation with a human rights record that would make Hitler downright cheerful invades and occupies a sovereign nation…people in Western nations tend to disapprove.

          People in the west don’t like invasions and occupations. Most certainly don’t like conquest, even if – hell, especially if WE do it.

          China is a very large country and a rival of the US. It’s probably going to be the next superpower after the U.S. Thus we are scared shitless everytime it does something we might perceive as immoral.

          The west perceives the occupation of Tibet as immoral and perhaps a subtle suggestion that China might just try to take everything once they have the power to do so. Is that really going to happen? Probably not. But we just don’t like the idea at all. We’ve all been ingrained to fear and hate the reds – and while he isn’t Ivan, China is still as red as crimson.

          And the reason why China doesn’t give a fuck what the West thinks about it is because China has been on the business end of a shithole since the 1842 Opium War. And Normies because most are avatars, bots, shills, ignorant of facts but pretend to be experts. Theyre brainwashed Charlatans. They know future of New Zealand depend on Middle Class stupidity buying into the narrative to take it mainstream. So they lie, shill & exaggerate. I point that out.

          So basically, China does the smart thing and invests time, money, and effort to acquire cutting edge technologies and building up the capacity the U.S. either was too lazy, distracted, or unable to protect to maintain an advantage/lead in because it got complacent about a rival and near-peer power doing everything it can to catch up. Even throwing enough money at U.S. companies can get you around the stuff the U.S. government prefer another country doesn’t get.

          *shrug*

          So what’s the problem?

          The countries who can throw the money, people, time, direction, effort, and espionage/theft/legal purchase into a particular field are going make good progress at it.

          And there is stuff we can do to differentiate ourselves and our logistics and technology that protects ourselves by adding other layers of complexity on top, in either energy requirements or language/syntax.

          • What am I meant to takeaway from those links? That the olympics is a vehicle for American exceptionalism?

            We should remember that Tibet has been a part of China for centuries. The first Dalai Lama was installed by the Chinese army back in the 16th century and China only ended Tibet’s automony in 1959 after a CIA backed rebellion. Before the Chinese occupation many Tibetans were slaves and serfs and the monks controlled the wealth of the country.

            Fact is China has an aircraft carrier and an industrial base capable of producing nuclear weapons for reasons other than what China has done in the past. To overcome these realities New Zealanders must make Chinese military systems combat ineffective by being open for business. Because that’s what it means to be apart of a rules based single payer market. It’s not perfect but the alternatives isn’t great.

            The problem with the Delia lama at the time of his exile was he didn’t negotiate with Mao’s China so they attempted guerrilla warfare but there tactics just weren’t great. There initial idea was to concentrate there merger defences against a technologically superior force. But usually when you’re negotiating you want to be in a position of power. Ideally your perp is desperate and can’t get what they want any other way than to act civility. Mao’s China was anything but that, his military greatly outmatched Tibet’s meagre forces making the whole idea ridiculous. And this is at the root of the problem. The Delia Lama sees his people as peacekeepers not soldiers. And sending peacekeepers against a military that knows it can win isn’t a great idea. The Tibetan faith are bound by extremely strict rulz of there faith and aren’t able to function with extreme prejudice. If you look at Sun Zsu or other weak vs strong battles they rely on good intelligence, deception, stealth and speed. None of these things were carried out during the Chinese invasion.

            First there’s the idiotic timing where the Delia Lama and his government wait until they are surrounded by Chinese forces who are engaged in scorched earth policy before fleeing to India.

            I know, I know, it’s all a bit dramatic but a better plan than to risk the lives of your people is to open yourselves up to the idea of trade. You know? Before thousands of your people start dying from all the bombs. A small force like the Tibetan conscript force could have only survived if they had of remained undetected and you can’t really do that while you have hundreds of thousands to govern. And if they are detected they need to quickly withdraw and brake contact with the enemy so the people don’t start resenting your incompetence. The last thing the Delia Lama wanted was to be bogged down in a giant open space where the enemy can use superior numbers to its full potential. Think about the battle of Thermopylae when the Spartans held off a superior force of Persians. But the moment that stupid hunch back betrayed them, and surrounded them, it was over. But for some reason the Dalai Lama at the time decided to hold out until the bitter end in the middle of wide open desert while Chinese air power had free rain, killing as many Tibetans as possible leading to many unnecessary casualties. The only thing they do manage to get right is cross the Himalayan Mountains were Chinese force could not follow. And this should have been the plan from the start so they could coordinate hit and run tactics and suppress enemy air power and supply lines. And forget negotiating with war criminals, just shoot em.

            The Tibetans weren’t well coordinated and there plan wasn’t well thought out. They didn’t have a clear command structure and they aren’t used to fighting large forces let alone giving or taking orders, and because of that the DeliaLamas exile is a pirate one. Tibetans lost there sovereignty in the face of a couple hundred tons of explosives and what did China lose? A bit of there human rights record on there way to re-assuming there position as a super power. But what happened next was the Tibetan monks were assigned leadership roles for no other reason than because they were peaceful monks. This isn’t merit based or training based and the Tibetan faith find themselves way over there heads. Just imagine if the U.S military got rid of there command structure and replaced them with Shaolin monks because they have a history of none violence simply because they are easily able to defeat people in one on one though experiments. Tibetan conscripts had only just found out they had a military and most didn’t even know Tibet was under occupation, so they were unfamiliar with Chinese equipment or capabilities. And what happens when you place them in command is you get PTSD tactics and suicide frontal assaults. But monks are not soldiers. It takes 10 years to train one and Tibet tried it in a matter of days because there leader decided one day. Tibet just couldn’t trade casualties with China. Also the leadership forgot that the people they were leading were just ordinary farmers and didn’t relies God wasn’t going to help them. And countless people died trying to follow there crazy religious leaders antics.

            A capable leader would have looked at the enemy composition and never expose there people to unnecessary danger. The goal was to maintain sovereignty and Tibetans have a nomadic lifestyle. A better tactic would have been to let China control the airwaves and protect there grazing fields. Or if they really needed to advance use Russian diplomacy and if you really need to use guerrilla tactics at least use smoke screens. The lose of Tibetan sovereignty was a rude awakening for peaceful religions everywhere and how expendable they are and how incompetent there leaders are.

            In the modern area peaceful protestors once again commit the same mistakes while many people suffer heavy casualties. And as it comes to no surprise many peaceful protestors are not hesitant to leave a movement and religious doctrine probably wasn’t even necessary.

            In the end the Delia Lama just wasn’t equipped to handle the task at hand. But besides a few judicials there were no real leaders to command Tibetan conscripts. This was literally a force built over night. But this was all apart of Mao’s brilliant plan. He was able to get rid of tons of rivals to communism that were stepped in the traditions of peace by exposing them to the horrors of warfare, once he new that the rigours of war was incompatible with Tibetan philosophy.

            So at least the terrible tactics had a purpose. The real objectives was achieved by the puppet master. Bravo Mao, bravo.

  4. Whoa! This deserves a lot of attention.

    While we focus on the TPPA, this is happening under our noses.

    When diplomacy isn’t working, strong-arm comes next.

  5. Yep, this is the Mainland Chinese way of dealing with persons they perceive as being a problem or threat to them.

    This is also the consequences that occur, when countries get too close to such a super power, NZ having signed a FTA under a then Labour led government, which the Nats happily supported.

    So it will be wise to develop other important markets for our goods, much of it food stuffs. Any over-dependence on one large market, here one that has a dim view of democracy and the Rule Of Law, cannot be good for us.

  6. Chinese thugs in collusion with members of the National party , eh?

    Sounds about right.

    So the Blue Dragons want to install another dragon as the Prime Minister aka Collins in New Zealand , eh?

    Well here’s a little message to all you far right wing bastards.

    Watch your step.

    This aint the Celestial homeland of mainland China , its New Zealand , mate , and there’s a whole new government in power. And here ? , – we don’t give a shit about Chiang Kai-shek or even Mao Zedong or your history , your spy’s you try to insert , your culture , your religious beliefs or your latest military advancements or build ups for whatever reason.

    No more than we would any other country. We only offer you the same as everyone else. Due respects until proven otherwise.

    We have our own history and culture that we are proud of.

    And you can try to be as aggressive and beat your chests as hard as you like and kid yourselves that you are some sort of ‘ alphas’ . You might even be where you come from , – but here ? , – your just another guest here under our good grace until you become a legal citizen.

    You would do well to remember that fact.

  7. Perhaps the reason the MSM are avoiding focusing on the Chinese Invasion is because they’ve seen terrible things and are now too shit scared to make a squeak, and we’re not aware of the enormity of the problem thus we make a fuss in blissful ignorance.
    I don’t believe our media are as complacent or as stupid as we’re led to believe.
    I think they’re afraid.
    Perhaps the coming war on China will be ignited using NZ/Aotearoa as an excuse?

    ‘merica is back!
    https://youtu.be/G3hbtM_NJ0s

  8. New Zealanders who don’t toe the Asia New Zealand line might also find themselves attacked by that and other proxies after collusion by Local and international diplomats, like David Taylor and others who for now remain nameless.

  9. This is deeply disturbing. Please continue to worry away at this bone, and if poss, bring other news media into the action.

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