Nanaia Mahuta’s cringeworthy “Taniwha and Dragon” speech has been met with disdain amongst our allies, and pompous gloating from China: China has heaped praise on New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister for expressing discomfort with expanding the scope of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network.[…] Chinese state media have taken
ACT Party ACT’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Praise for New Zealand’s Foreign Minister from a communist dictatorship is deeply concerning and shows the Government should be more focussed on building stronger ties with our traditional allies,” says ACT’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “New
As other BFD contributors have noted, the Ardern government is letting New Zealand’s traditional alliances drift away, even as those allies are engaging in region-shaping new partnerships. While New Zealand’s strongest historical partner is in the thick of a, shall we say, robust dialogue with an aggressive, expansionist
19th April 2021 As reports are getting evermore difficult, it is a miscellany of incidents today. Today, Kyawt Kay Khine, a 17-year-old girl studying at BESH (3) Bahan was abducted by the Military from Thurein Aluminum, BoSeinHman Street. She is just one of many as the military has started a
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org On April 9 I sent out a link to an interview I did with Gunnar Kaiser and urged people to watch it before YouTube censored it completely. Well, guess what … no sooner had YouTube finally removed its punitive ban on KaiserTV from uploading new content — whereupon
19th April 2021 The Junta troops continue to take casualties. There are sporadic conflicts throughout the regions and the civilians are fighting back in low scale conflicts. The troops are having problems with supplies and are “foraging” for food. They are stealing rice and chickens from the local villagers and
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rt.com Israel has lifted its requirement for wearing a mask in the street and has fully opened schools, as officials believe “progress” in fighting the pandemic is apparent. Less than one per cent of recent Covid-19 tests showed positive. The nationwide ban on going outside without an obligatory mask
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. District Headquarters Hospital Faisalabad is a 570-bed hospital in the second-largest city in the Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Like all hospitals in Pakistan, it is under pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has excellent facilities and
Alexander Gillespie theconversation.com Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. Very recently in the Bay of Bengal a naval exercise took place involving India, France, Japan and Australia. While it received little or no coverage in
Mahuta drew on metaphors heavily to describe New Zealand’s contemporary relationship with China. “When I think about this relationship … I liken it to the respect a taniwha would have for a dragon, and vice versa,” she told the NZ China Council in Wellington. […] “Taniwha are endemic to Aotearoa but
18th April 2021 The conflict in Myanmar is reaching a stage where the Military won’t lose, but equally they can’t win. The Tatmadaw have about 350,000/400,000 troops and the EAOs about 100,000. The Tatmadaw are better armed and have an air force, most of
This is what foreign policy failure looks like after New Zealand’s despicable treatment of Fiji under Helen Clark and John Key. Successive foreign ministers, but especially Murray McCully have led to this: Two senior officers of Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) recently received their Masters in Military Science
We’re told that tracer apps are for our own protection and to stop the spread of Covid, but if what’s happening overseas is any indication, then that is a big lie. It seems you must comply or lose your livelihood. ReclaimTheNet reports: Many have feared that invasive location
I often refer to Communist China as the Nazi Germany of the 21st century. This is not intended as mere hyperbole, but a solemn warning. A new book on Chinese history and Chinese Communist Party ideology lends weight to the warning. In the Politeia, Plato urged the Ideal State to
