Why we should ban trade with Saudi Arabia
The mantra from MFAT is that if we only traded with regimes we liked we wouldn’t trade with anyone, which is fine and dandy, but surely there are limits right?
Like Saudi Arabia.
A country that gives 200 lashes to a woman gang raped, a country that treats women less than we treat our sheep, a country that crucifies people.
Just think about that for a second, crucifixion!
They literally crucify people in the 21st century.
This latest embarrassment of Air NZ helping repair the military hardware of a country currently embroiled in war crimes is shameful enough, but this is nothing new.
National attempted to bribe a Saudi businessman to get a free trade deal, and this Labour Government in 2018 signed up to that trade deal.
I don’t wish to be that guy, but surely trading with a country that actually crucifies its people diminishes our mana as a people.
How venal are we for a buck in this country?
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We LOVE human rights abuses in NZ. Not just Saudi but we LOVE china who has millions in concentration camps, rapes and forces Muslims into concentration camps, have taken over Hong Kong which was supposed to be neutral and jails and silences doctors who try to stop Covid spreading.
They don’t even seem very good for business either long term. China wins, Farmers lose. First Sanlu then Beingmate. Then the PSA bacteria from China that destroyed NZ Kiwifruit industry.
Contaminated milk scandal hurting Fonterra
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/3715/contaminated-milk-scandal-hurting-fonterra
Fonterra’s Chinese partner forecasts big loss after milk powder scandal
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/82289543/fonterras-chinese-partner-forecasts-big-loss-after-milk-powder-scandal
Which countries do not do trade with Saudi Arabia because of their treatment of its citizens .
What you say is correct in theory but where do you draw the line. China Russian Philippines many of the other Arab States countries in Africa and Asia all have a poor record when it comes to treatment of its citezens especially if they are the wrong religion or ethnicity
Good comments Frank and saveNZ.
I agree– it’s complicated.
I was once asked to sign a petition to stop all NZ trade with Australia because of their mistreatment of Aboriginals.