On November 30th, after the election, National received a $55,000 donation from Oravida. It’s a Chinese-owned company whose former owner, Terry Lee, is director of Pengxin’s Crafar Farms vehicle, Milk New Zealand, and co-owns a company, Natural Pure, with Pengxin owner Jiang Zhaobai that is intended to be one of the two dairy brands using Crafar Farms milk.
In light of National’s illegal decision to let Pengxin buy the farms despite a lack of real benefits to New Zealand and their seeming determination to approve the sale again, despite the ruling, maybe we ought to examine that donation a little more closely.
And, while we’re at it, can we ask some questions about the soft loans that Pengxin gets from the Chinese government to fund its international purchases of strategic assets, and how deep the links between Pengxin and the Chinese dictatorship really go?
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