As I warned yesterday, China is luring a starry-eyed and greed-blinded Jacinda Ardern into a debt trap that threatens New Zealand’s very sovereignty. Across the world, the CCP regime is using the “Belt and Road Initiative” to bring naïve and greedy governments under its heel. But it’s not
As The BFD has been reporting for over year, now, lockdowns are wrong. Not just wrong: wrong. Morally wrong. Evil. After all, the whole rationale for lockdowns was supposed to be “save lives”. But they haven’t. In fact, they’ve cost lives. The evidence has been quite clear from
6th July 2021 The National Unity Government (NUG) has released pictures of volunteers from Peoples’ Defence Forces (PDFs) in training with Southern Command. This is the 5th batch to undergo this training. The NUG defence minister sent a message to the ceremony expressing his thanks to ethnic armed organizations (EAOs)
Information Satire Ethno-Nationalist-Fascism Explainer Editor Auckland Law School academic Claire Charters, the author of He Puapua, has been contracted by the Scottish Government to prepare a similar report and pathway to self-rule by the indigenous chiefs of Scotland and their clansmen serfs. The report titled Och Aye The Noo! (Yes,
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is clearly itching to sign New Zealand up to China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”. Ardern witters that the notorious scheme “has really evolved”, while Trade Minister David Parker urges New Zealand to “get on board”. All those billions of glittering yuan from Beijing are apparently
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4th July 2021 Well, it had to happen. With already poor health systems in place and the standards of medical care declining Covid cases are increasing throughout Myanmar. Accurate figures are difficult to come by as official figures seem to be dramatically understated. A training course for promotion candidates in
Orestes R Betancourt Ponce de León fee.org Orestes R Betancourt Ponce de León holds a Master of Public Administration from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. He is a former research intern with the CATO Institute and currently specializes in the sector of international development. In his 1850 essay,
Communications with and within Myanmar continue to be difficult, with the regime now looking at a policy of “whitelisting”. I know that my own communications with Myanmar have been getting more difficult recently. One of the many freedoms Myanmar people lost in the aftermath of the February 1 coup was
Chongyi Feng University of Technology Sydney Dr Feng Chongyi is Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology, Sydney and adjunct Professor of History, Nankai University, Tianjin. He is China’s first holder of PhD in contemporary Chinese history and served as head of China Studies at UTS for 11
Guyon Espiner has an article about John Key and his boot-licking relationship with the CCP and Xi Jinping. 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 who has
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. This weekend’s Otago Foreign Policy School will be another chance for foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta to explain the Labour Government’s foreign policy agenda. The Dunedin conference has
He is not so mighty yet that he is above fear; nay, doubt ever gnaws him J R R Tolkien, “The Lord of the Rings” 100 years ago, the first step was taken on the road to tens of millions of deaths and decades of misery for nearly ¼ of humanity.
National is committed to ensuring New Zealand shares the same diplomatic tools and capabilities as its Western counterparts, National’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gerry Brownlee says. Mr Brownlee’s Autonomous Sanctions Bill would allow a New Zealand government to impose sanctions on foreign individuals, entities or regimes responsible for situations
