What about the 'treatment' of the Uighurs? That they have massively increased in population under socialism, enjoy a standard of living far higher than what was the case in the past, have significant affirmative action benefits, have their culture, ...
Awesome comment.
"Clark is identical to Key in their deep trust in mercntilist Chinese compacts." With good reason. The China trade has benefitted NZ (and Australia) enormously in recent decades, without which we would have experience Great Depression levels of poverty.
"But Xi is rapidly replacing a market economy with a fully state directed corporate economy." And how on earth is that a strategic or military threat to New Zealand? Please explain.
Providing seminars sharing one developing country's experience to another on how to rapidly lift developing countries out of poverty is surely a good thing? Or are only Westerners allowed a point of view. You appear to imply that. Regardless, if that is ...
"We are part of the free world, China isn’t, and we must join with other countries to ensure that we triumph against the form of world that China wants to impose." Where is your evidence that China wants to impose its ways on the rest of the world? ...
There is even less excuse for it in the age of the internet, where a huge variety of viewpoints abound, but more importantly where facts are must more easily discoverable. Perhaps there is a will to believe what one wishes to believe, and there are reasons...
Would have been difficult to distinguish between local and international Chinese buyers, and even if Labour's research was statistically valid (something I've never looked into and don't have an opinion on), they would not pull the same stunt on any other ...
"as buyers of oil we developed a dependency on it to the point where the seller can dictate the terms of the sale" Well of course, and on this point Seymour is completely correct and we should lift all restrictions on oil and gas exploration. Beggars ...
"...why we have so much trade with a totalitarian state baffles me." What's so baffling about it. The answer is obvious. We sell to whoever has the capacity and willingness to buy our stuff. And btw no-one gets cancelled for attacking China or the Chinese ...
Great comment.
"The government of the People’s Republic of China is ruled by a totalitarian ideology under a one-party communist state. It deprives citizens of human rights on a sweeping scale and systematically curtails freedoms in order to retain power. People in China...
The same sort of demonisation of foreign countries as a way to setup public opinion to meet the war ends of the US empire has happened over and over again. Surprised that we see this BS on a blog that purports to be left-wing. [Before you make even more of...
Probably a lot less wrong than aligning with the US, which will either assassinate leaders they don't like, or outright invade with scant regard for civilian casualties resulting in a hecatomb of corpses of innocent men, women, and children. China's ...
"We probably don’t need reminding that the nearby island nation of Kiribati also switched official relations to Beijing in 2019." Sorry, that's arrogant neocolonial thinking. So there is something untoward about Kiribati switching official relations to ...
What's wrong with the Solomon's having good relations and agreements with many countries at the same time, if it sees this to its advantage? After all, New Zealand is attempting good relations with China, at the same time as nurturing historic links with ...
"Notice where the locomotive of Xi's thought goes off the rails. The rapid development was caused by copying western capitalism. None of Xi's 14 principles acknowledges this fact of life." Not exactly. Socialistic methods were used to lay the groundwork of...
Awesome article Mike. Thanks, I enjoyed it. As for the detractors, perhaps they are just pissed that for the first time in 500 years, a formerly colonized people (semi-colonized to be exact), brutally subjugated by Western imperialism, is now taking its ...
So you can carry out 'whole systems thinking' without first a solid understanding of its parts? At the moment there is a huge deficit in students understandign of basic maths concepts, and appalling literacy skills, for what is supposedly still a first ...
"I can't see why the basics of science can't be taught alongside the holistic framework. So rather than a linear approach (basics first, philosophy later), teach the basics within the holistic frame." Frankly this is ridiculous, and I suspect you have ...
Is that a euphemism for her nice smile perchance? Mr Ed also has a nice smile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LND1PypBnrU
awww....Come on....she does look like a tranny ....and what's wrong with that anyway? - you prejudiced or something..... why consider it an insult?.....you have somethin against transvestites?????
"Leading our country and pregnant not just a message to young NZ women about what’s possible, but all women" So getting all chummy with and then chosen by New Zealand's most racist politician to be PM - after running a campaign on vacuous slogans such as ...
Huh? China did not expand into Tibet because Tibet is a part of China, and is recognized as such by every single sovereign state in the world, New Zealand included. The long standing US position, way before the communists took power: “The United States ...
"Lebensraum"? Are you talking of the expansion of the Anglo Saxon race into the Americas and Australasia - places they had absolutely no historical connection with?
Huh? What's your question, numbnuts?
"violence is automatically negative in nature...." Liberal democracy = non violence: https://tinyurl.com/y7772yoj
How did liberal democracy get to be liberal democracy? By having the economic and cultural conditions and optimum social stratification that enabled it. The economic conditions achieved by extremely illiberal means, off the backs of black, brown, and ...
How did that protest in the square end up again? Pretty good. Those hippies got what was coming to them.
Don't live there, but I've heard its pretty good actually, Mr numbnuts
It may simply be Jones is older, wiser, more mature, and perhaps even smarter than Folau. He probably believes the same thing though.
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