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Key: “The Scum of the Earth I believe?’ Xi: “The bloody assassin of the workers I presume” (My apologies to David Low)

Key: “The Scum of the Earth I believe?’

Xi: “The bloody assassin of the workers I presume”

(My apologies to David Low)

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  1. Xi: Imperialism is good for business
    Key: Business is good for imperialism

    Let’do it, let’s fall in love.

  8. Key – Another photo for my wife’s family album – Me with world leaders, 2025.
    President Xi – Another image for the modellers fashioning the new modern Terracotta Shrine of figures recording China’s greatness in the world and our dealings with the minions of all countries.
    (Wikipedia – (about terracotta ancient figures) – approximately the late 200s BCE,[1] were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong County, outside Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army
    [Note that President Xi’s name is the place of the venerable ‘tomb’ and Key’s name reflects his essay to assay the mechanism of an influential door leading off a cow paddock not a site of ancient civilisation, a polluted swimming pool, and a state house in the rear.]

  9. Judith Collins is making a big deal of this, in her usual mendacious way. Ignoring the fact that John Key and Helen Clark would have “run it past” MFAT, in fact would have got MFAT’s explicit blessing, just as Bob Carr and all the other western “former Prime Ministers” got the blessing of their respective governments, or indeed were acting in accordance with the request of their own governments.
    Christopher Luxon has not been so stupid as to criticize Clark and Key because he knows he can’t criticize an action to which he had given prior approval.
    So you don’t like Xi and you don’t think New Zealand should have anything to do with the him or the PRC.
    Fine. Does the same apply to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu?
    Will you oppose even unofficial contacts with that pair?
    Good. You are being consistent.
    Judith Collins is not. Her blathering on about the “rules based order” is the height of hypocrisy. The US and Trump are bombing nations and assassinating individuals around the world without provocation and that, she will have us believe, is how the “rules based order” is meant to work.
    Putting aside his domestic policies, Xi shows a much better understanding of what a rules based order should mean.

    • Simon O’Connor, he who is a staunch proponent of the Gaza genocide, is another one slamming Key and Clark. Why? Because he sees, quite correctly that the world is dividing between those who wish to perpetuate the bloody reign of European capitalism (like himself) and those who are taking a stand against it, which includes most of the world and, incidentally, the majority of the populations within those European states.
      We don’t have to endorse the records of China, Iran, Russia, Cuba or Venezuela. We don’t have to claim that all such states sit on the same moral plain. But we have to make a moral judgement over what the US is trying to do the world, with the complicity of the Realm of New Zealand. The two thirds of humanity represented in Beijing are actually an important part of our hope for a better world. Clark and Key were present in Beijing because even the New Zealand government knows that to be the case. They just cannot say so directly because of fear of the wrath of Donald Trump.

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