Jacinda is an international political rock star, Albo’s 501 concession & why Nanaia’s Pacific Geopolitical strategy is working
Jacinda Ardern first New Zealander to be invited to speak at NATO Leaders Summit
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is expected to participate in the upcoming NATO Leaders Summit, becoming the first New Zealand leader to do so.
Our PM has enormous popularity internationally, and this is a GOOD thing for NZ! –
People criticising her and the invitation are bad faith actors who would find something to criticise her over if she had won lotto and donated it all to charity!
It is positive for NZ that the rest of the West respect and like our Prime Minister, this is soft NZ power at work!
One of the things not known by many is that when China attempted their Pacific bribe, those Pacific nations privately asked our advice on the offer.
They didn’t ask Australia or America for their thoughts on the offer, they asked us.
They asked us, because NZ has been genuine in its interaction with the Pacific because they are whanau to us and that has had an enormous difference in approach.
America and Australia were as shocked by the Pacific Nations asking our advice as they were at China’s audacity to try it on in the first place. This level of trusted influence NZ has with our Pacific family has provoked the hint of a massive change in the 501 rules that will see an enormous drop off of deportees and the quiet promise of a bilateral economic relationship with America.
That’s why Nanaia kept her Cabinet position despite claims she is lazy with our Pacific geopolitical strategy, the truth is that we have very deep and genuine relationships with our Pacific neighbours and that is only building because off China’s aggression, not declining.
In her meeting with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi last week, the Chinese noted NZ soft power influence and how much they wanted to work with us…
On the Chinese side, a readout of the call published by Chinese-state media Xinhua said Wang told Mahuta China was ready to work with New Zealand in the South Pacific.
…NZs soft power is an enormous diplomatic tool that we have built with decades of genuine interaction with our Pacific brothers and sisters, we should feel proud that we are respected internationally and we should embrace our skills to sit down and hui issues out rather than picking up weapons.
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NZ should not deal with a country that enslaves Uighurs and I cannot believe I have to say this.
Wow, that’s an interesting point, Dan. Do you also believe in the other beliefs of the guy, Adrian Zenz, who invented ‘Uyghur genocide’, like God needs us to destroy the Chinese government, the idea of equality between the sexes is a plot by Satan, all COVID deaths are ‘victims of Communism’, or that it is necessary to support ‘israel’ to bring on the Rapture?
So does that include the US? Many Uighurs were kidnapped from NATO nations by US operatives and consigned to imprisonment without trial in Guantanamo Bay. New Zealand had not a a word to say about it. New Zealand’s current handwringing over the fate of the Uighurs is pure hypocrisy.
But none of this fills hungry tummies, or provides shelter from the cold night air, or a place to call home.
New Zealand isn’t a member NATO, though celebrity prop Ardern is just gagging to sacrifice our country to this lot. We shouldn’t have anything to do with this decrepit old war pimp who is pushing the human race to nuclear annihilation.
I cannot believe that you come on this blog slobbering such negative stuff as I have read multiple times from you. But you are part of the human culture on this blog which gets acknowledged and so am I whom you probably dissent with.
There is a reason, however warped, for everything that nations do, and we just have to try and find it, understand it and clean up our act, instead of following artificial trends facilitated by malicious great political and financial interests to further their own ends. There is so much bad in the world that little spikes of good shine out and for a while limit the darkness. If only we could reverse that scenario. We just have to try and be mostly good ourselves, and work towards bettering the damage caused by malevolent perpetrators usually wanting more resources, more land, more wealth.
Go PMJacinda keep the positives going with the nations meeting and looking guardedly at each other;
maybe a better deal will be struck without weaponry.
I don’t buy it, this govt. is getting ever closer to US Imperialism after a few decades of maintaining a reasonably independent foreign policy. There will be no free trade agreement with the USA–get used to that Jacinda.
The PM should be saying that Pacific Islands have sovereign ability to associate with other nations as they like. Of course behind the scenes the threats will be made to withdraw aid etc.
NZ remains in the Anglophile 5 Eyes and is now gravitating toward NATO? WTF… “Soft power” for what purpose? If it was non alignment, bilateral trade and cultural agreements, and leaving 5 Eyes, then all good. But giving Uncle Sam a big cuddle is a retrograde step in a world facing multiple variations of serious shit.
Jacinda is suffering from the Obama curse loved from afar but not from the home crowd.
When Mahuta replaces Jacinda as leader the name of the party should change to the Mahuta party as that is what every MP’s surname will be.