Why would we trust Matua Shane Jones and Donald Trump with NZs rare earth minerals?

US, New Zealand commit to exploring opportunities, cooperation on critical minerals

New Zealand and the United States have committed to “explore further opportunities” to expand cooperation on critical minerals, according to a statement released by both governments.

It comes after the Prime Minister dismissed reporting of potential talks between the two nations about the supply of minerals to the US as “speculative and hypothetical” on Monday.

“I think the commentary, frankly, is probably a bit frothy and a bit ahead of itself,” Luxon said on Morning Report, while the opposition slammed the “secret” talks.

Top diplomats from both countries met in Washington on Tuesday for the New Zealand-United States Strategic Dialogue.

RNZ

Look.

This is Shane Jones boasting to the fishing Industry that he would amputate Māori fishing rights…

Minister calls Judge ‘Communist’ in meeting with seafood lobby over Māori rights

Stuff

…this is Shane Jones making climate change and mining a culture war issue…

…this is Shane Jones rigging the game for his donors interests…

Shane Jones shut down NZ involvement in ‘road map’ away from fossil fuels

RNZ

…he rewrote the pollution rules and gave oil and gas a $200million subsidy FFS!

So why the living Christ would we trust Shane any where nea negotiating rare earth minerals with Donald Trump?

It’s like to 2 Mobsters cutting a deal, most South American Drug Cartels have more ethics than Trump and Matua Shane.

What has Shane done in 2 years that would lead you to trust him? He has been the one pushing rare earth minerals and now he has the ear of Trump???

We should not be getting sucked into this.