Following pro-Chinese students attacking Hong Kong pro-democracy students on Auckland University and the Chinese Consulate supporting that violence comes ANOTHER threat from China…
Chinese Consulate warning against turning Hong Kong into ‘pawn to curb China’
The Auckland office of China’s Consulate General has lodged a stern warning to New Zealand and other foreign nations against turning Hong Kong into a pawn to curb China.
…Our Chinese Economic Overlords are unhappy and starting to interfere in NZ domestic politics by fermenting trouble using their nationals in the country.
The NZ Government is starting to push back…
NZ government caution to China over Hong Kong signals relationship ‘adjustment’ – Anne Marie Brady
Government officials have raised concerns about freedom of expression with the Chinese embassy, after supporters of the Hong Kong protests in Auckland faced silencing tactics.
…this phenomenal ricocheting up of tensions is being ignored by the mainstream media who are more focused on a storm and Julie-Anne Genter’s ‘secret letter’.
If there is no political solution to Hong Kong, China will use their diaspora throughout the South Pacific to shut down criticism. The true cost of China being our largest trading partner is now being felt.
Agreed Martyn,
Best we get behind the UK on this again as they were the ones that anded Hong Kong back to China when they were asleep. Now they have ‘woken the tiger’.
Australia needs our ‘allied’ support also here as they are restling with this beast.
Is China buying us all; – as a pretext to a takeover?
Cleangreen: “Best we get behind the UK on this again as they were the ones that anded Hong Kong back to China when they were asleep.”
Have you got the least idea of the history of the Brits and Hong Kong? Answers self: clearly not.
I suggest that you go study a bit of history: it’s definitely not as one-dimensional a situation as you evidently believe.
“Is China buying us all; – as a pretext to a takeover?”
Hahahaha… Oh dearie me: the yellow peril!
Christ…. I’m old. I feel as if I’ve heard all of this over and over in my longish life. And if old age has taught me one thing, it’s the value of scepticism.
However. In the age of the internet, no excuse for blind ignorance. Both the current events in HK – and Tiananmen Square all those years ago – have all the hallmarks of the notorious “colour” revolutions of Eastern Europe, the Ukraine being the most recent. And: we all know who was behind those events, don’t we?
I’m puzzled that, given all the geopolitical manoeuvrings in that part of the world over recent years, you’d look at what’s happening in HK and believe that what you see is what you get. Astonishing…
Yes the USA is in there creating propaganda / news for Kiwis to digest.
There are no substantial grounds for protest as the deal under reunification is far better than the deal under Britain.
The protest is another manufactured fiasco with “Made in USA” written all over it.
Who the hell is Mark anyway?
Is he emailing directly from the Chinese Consulate?
Have no problem with ‘NZ Chinese’ (you know the ones – the ones you went to school with and are as Kiwi as anyone) but we should look at expelling the ones who have no respect or loyalty for any country other than the PRC.
Who knew – looks like Winston was right back in the day after all.
True there James.
I had thought NZ was firmly in the US’s grip and had been for a long long time? That said I doubt China really gives two hoots what this fleabite of a country thinks one way or the other.
Maybe mainland China should back down on the extradition treaty from Hong Kong.
Things were not so tense before that.
It is not weak, it is just being strategic and what was promised aka Hong Kong could keep it’s sovereignty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong
Agreed China is really looking stupid here. Not a global leader at all.
With this East vs West mindset,it is important to keep in mind that neither America or China has the best interests of Ao/Nz in mind.
Is anyone studying, and reporting on, the Chinese media in NZ and what they are telling their nationals in this country?
Good question Rosie Lee,
Ms Brady is the only ray of truth as to what is really going on over there.
Mark sends has Chinese propoaganda as usual and we are meant to be kept asleep while china uses its massive meney printing macherery to buy us all out in a tackover while we dont see it comming until the ‘ink is dry’ on documents signed in private without us knowing.
Yes NZ should not heed Marks call; quote – “Indeed it is in NZs interests to shut the fuck up about the internal affairs of China.”
Not in your Nellie Mark, – remember it was the US that stood by ‘in fear’ of what you say to ‘keep the hell out of their bussiness’ right?
Then we in the allies had to finallly fight against the japanese to restore the global peace then.
So eventually it was the US and and all her allies that was forced to loose so many solders then to stop the Japanese exterminating all chinese people during the second wordld war remember Mark?
So now telling us not to ‘question China’ is a bit rich now dont you think?
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwii/88734.htm
Between 1937 and 1941, escalating conflict between China and Japan influenced U.S. relations with both nations, and ultimately contributed to pushing the United States toward full-scale war with Japan and Germany.
At the outset, U.S. officials viewed developments in China with ambivalence. On the one hand, they opposed Japanese incursions into northeast China and the rise of Japanese militarism in the area, in part because of their sense of a longstanding friendship with China. On the other hand, most U.S. officials believed that it had no vital interests in China worth going to war over with Japan. Moreover, the domestic conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists left U.S. policymakers uncertain of success in aiding such an internally divided nation. As a result, few U.S. officials recommended taking a strong stance prior to 1937, and so the United States did little to help China for fear of provoking Japan
The USA attempted to ensconce themselves in China and got kicked out so then had a go at Korea wrecking havoc on the people.
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