There is something very odd about the current trial into Labour and National Party donation scandals that is being gruesomely dissected in Court right now.
It’s not the high stake players in Labour who were involved in trying to assess why such expensive auction gifts were being gifted and then bought for outrageous amounts by the same people gifting it.
It’s not the insight of how crazy the Simon Bridges and Jamie-Lee Ross relationship had degenerated into.
It’s the total agreement by all media to not focus on the 10 000 pound Panda Red Dragon Bear standing in the middle of the court room.
This was an attempt by the Chinese Government to directly buy influence in our domestic politics.
The media can dress it up as much as they like that it was just Chinese Business interests trying to buy access in NZ, but that would be a dangerously naive position to take.
The idea that these Chinese business interests were not informing China Government Officials that they had access to the purse strings of the two largest political parties in a Country China has keen interests in.
We can’t be this fucking stupid can we?
It’s like that moment Labour and National unanimously agreed to flush both their Chinese MPs because of their links to the Chinese Government.
It happened and no one mentioned it!
The same thing is happening now.
This donations scandal isn’t about the fine print of Electoral Law, it’s about the Chinese Government via Chinese proxies attempting to buy influence in the domestic politics of NZ!
The Left consider any criticism of China as xenophobic and the Right are too financially entangled with Chinese Business interests to say anything.
Newspapers won’t comment and journalists chose to focus on anything but the obvious influence of the Chinese Government in all of this.
If America had been caught attempting to influence politics like this, there would be an uproar, because it’s China no one rocks the boat!
The irony of using Chinese cameras to spy on Kiwis should make us all wince…
Questions raised about Chinese surveillance cameras used in NZ
Chinese surveillance cameras remain in wide use in New Zealand despite renewed controversy about them overseas.
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New Zealand is so dependant on Chinese expansion. How do we culture flip that when every time they come down here they’ll be treated like outsiders
Nope we are not dependant on China.
Before China, we had OZ, Japan, etc for our exports. Big opportunity in the UK as they leave the EU, also NZ signed a free trade deal with the EU.
NZ bovine officials and media, seem to be too stupid and lazy to diversify our exports. There is catastrophic thinking in NZ constantly, which disguises laziness and ignorance.
Our officials like the ‘gifts and donations’ that the Chinese provide to officials so it’s all rah, rah for China from certain people – and that is all they do, rah, rah, China, we will not survive without China etc. This is picked up by lazy media also on the take.
Meanwhile in the period we prostituted ourselves to China, seems to be one where NZ is facing the greatest poverty, crime wave, corruption, debt, political interference, and skills shortages.
It has clearly has not be a successful strategy.
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So my basic thesis is that Japanese remilitarization is not going favorably, not just by China either. Japan still has the legacy of being a boogieman in that part of the world. Not to mention, if China can sustain the growth they’ve been experiencing, They’ll overtake The USA economically, in a great way.
Is an arms race to the future between Beijing and the rest of the Pacific really going to be in anyone’s favor?
And as for India, I’m just not seeing it. Yes, India is big enough to challenge China. Yes, India and China will compete for resources, most likely in Africa.
But I just don’t see the kind of enmity between China and India, the kind that China has for Japan. Or the need for security from a rising China that would prompt Wellington to join Washington in some very clear anti-China league.
Labour call criticism of China as Xenophobic? I seem to recall National getting very sanctimonious when “Chinese sounding names” were mentioned in house price discussions. National were trying to pretend the Chinese were not buying any property.
Irrelevant. As long as extremely hostile threats like America and ‘israel’ are interfering in our politics, no point to getting one’s panties in a bunch about the government of the people of China.
You want noodles with that?
A serious look at the (Labour) ChCh Mayor and her late husbands complex business dealings, nominee companies, conflicts of interest with Chinese business interests and so would be revealing indeed. Never happen of course. Too embarrassing for the Labour Party.
And JKs dealings with Chinese?
We don’t want to go there, embarrassing for the National party consortium.
One of the oldest ruling class manoeuvres is to get the masses identifying with “their” imperialist power. So in NZ that has often been generating support for the USA, and against Russia and China.
In earlier times it was NZers being expected to support the ‘mother country’ (as in the butchers apron colonial British flag). Exhibit A–WWI where NZers went marching off to a war between imperialist powers in Europe until they were slaughtered in record numbers, woke up a bit, and then had to be conscripted to go! Just about every small town and hamlet in NZ has a memorial gate, hall, monument or flag post re WWI and the terrible cost.
So buy into imperialist rivalry at your peril. The international socialist position is Neither Washington, Moscow or Beijing.
As for Chinese manufactured Cameras reporting back to home base–what do you think your iPhone does? it reports your every move back to vast Apple data centres unless you drill through scores of settings in applications–though Apple at least makes some decent privacy provisions and tracker blocking available.
NZ Police use American face recognition software, NZ security agencies collect data on NZ citizens and Pacific citizens which they scabbily supply to the NSA and 5 Eyes.
China has 5 or so offshore Military installations, the USA has over 750 publicly discoverable offshore bases and facilities. Check the shameful record of invasions by US Imperialism. The US supports Israeli brutalisation of Palestinians to the hilt with trillions of dollars and arms shipments.
China may not be a democrats dream, but neither is the US which is on the verge of becoming an authoritarian theocracy if enough Americans don’t turn out in the mid terms.
The CCP is structured and operates the same as the Mafia, drug cartels and any other organized crime syndicate. Doing business with them is akin to letting a thief into your house.
the ccp aren’t the only gangsters in town if you hadn’t noticed. They’re using the same hustle of loans and infrastructure to muscle their way in. banks, political alliances and doing “business”. it’s nothing new. bit of a borg approach from the fifties if you ask me. I’m sure anyone can buy influence and lobby the ccp for references if you contribute to China. Work your way up politically. I don’t think they really give an eff what anyone outside the party thinks tbh. monitor and assess. resources and energy. the impacts of coal burning. looking forward to their cheap electric cars.
Where the art.
TA.
a few nukes will sort it out – we really need our own MADD deterrent and they will look away. ukraine gave up their nukes and see where that got them. whilst I abhor the thought of their use – nuclear armageddon has afforded us some sense of stability amidst the insanity of world powers and their lust for resources..
if you like living with the risk of accidental use.
Just wait until America is no longer able to maintain its ’empire’.
Times will get interesting then
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