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# John Key’s CCP Boot-Licking Exposed for All
- URL: https://goodoil.news/john-keys-ccp-boot-licking-exposed-for-all/
- Published: 2021-07-02T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-17T16:58:33.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, World Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

Guyon Espiner has an article about [**John Key** and his boot-licking relationship with the CCP and **Xi Jinping**](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/china-and-nz/300347858/merry-xmas-mr-john-key--your-friend-president-xi-jinping?ref=goodoil.news). I’ll warn you now, you’ll need a bucket as it is extremely vomit-inducing:

> Many politicians in the West see [China’s President Xi Jinping as a dangerous dictator](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/china-and-nz/300343772/the-china-challenge-100-years-on-chinas-communist-party-is-achieving-its-goals-at-home-and-abroad?ref=goodoil.news) who has scrapped term limits, allowing him to rule the world’s most populous country for life.  
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> But former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key calls President Xi a friend – and says he is on the Chinese leader’s Christmas card list.  
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> “He calls me a friend and I think he sort of means that,” Key said. “I don’t want to overstate things – he might take me off his Christmas card list, but he does send me one every year.”  
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> Stuff

John Key is obviously still hoping for that elusive board appointment to a Chinese bank. I’m not sure I’d be happy getting a Christmas card from a dictator, but hey whatever rips your undies eh John?

> Key says his closeness to President Xi has given him insights into China’s thinking.  
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> “**I’ve had the privilege of quite a lot of one-on-one dinners and conversations with Xi Jinping.**”  
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> Key said China still saw itself as a developing nation and hoped to lift another 300-400 million people out of poverty with policies aimed at increasing economic growth.  
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> “The goal is, and this is a crude way of saying it, but Singapore on steroids. It’s to develop the country to a point where they are smart, efficient, lifting people out of poverty and giving people opportunity and hope.”  
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> Stuff

And I’m sure Xi’s boots are highly spit polished as a result of those one on one dinners.

Key then glibly glosses over China’s appalling human rights issues:

> Key accepted China had serious human rights issues and believed New Zealand should speak up about those but didn’t think that should hinder strong economic relations between the countries.  
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> “Some people will say, ‘God, that guy’s just an investment banker through and through and all he’s thinking about is money, doesn’t care about anything else,’ and all I would say to you is that I am not an idiot,” Key said.  
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> “I do think that New Zealand companies and New Zealand consumers have massively benefited from this relationship. I don’t think we’ve done that by selling our soul. I think we’ve continued to stand up for the things we believe in and I do think that it would be easy for us to drift into the place where the others are at.”  
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> Stuff

You may not be an idiot, but you have no principles…or at the least you sold those principles for a few cheap Chinese knock-offs. As for your soul? Well, I’m not sure you actually have one.

> Key said he remained in touch with the former leaders of Britain, Australia, America and Canada, and they were all deeply negative about China.  
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> “I’m not going to change my view, because all of a sudden, a bunch of leaders that I used to hang around with who thought China were good, now all of a sudden, think they are not so good.”  
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> Stuff

Interesting insight into the lonely ex-politicians club. Also lets me know that Key has concrete thinking when it comes to China. As I said, he’s still holding out hope for that [sinecure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinecure?ref=goodoil.news) at a Chinese bank, and yes I used that word deliberately, both for its original meaning and for the more modern.

> “I’m not a tinfoil hat conspiracy kind of guy. I think they are what they are. They are a big country that used to have the largest economy in the world that has spent centuries on ice,” Key said.  
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> “They are many things, but a global force for evil is not one of them in my view.”  
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> Stuff

And there we have it, proof that he is in fact an idiot…a CCP boot-licking idiot.

If something walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it is probably a Peking Duck.

Just remember, no hard feelings John.

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