In my recent posts, I have relentlessly excoriated the Ardern government for its Quisling stupidity regarding China. Lest BFD readers think I’m singling out New Zealand unfairly, I would point out that Australia has been there, too. Australia has learned the hard way from the same mistakes that New
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been savaged for sucking up to China and turning her back on the Five Eyes alliance during a historic debate in which British MPs unanimously declared that China is carrying out genocide and crimes against humanity. Newshub Nanaia Mahuta on Wednesday said Aotearoa would continue
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The Committee on the Present Danger: China, (CPDC) Women’s Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF) WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Committee on the Present Danger: China, (CPDC) and Women’s Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF) released last week an open letter urging the United States Olympics Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Jacinda Ardern’s paternalism and colonialism of the Cook Islands has gone too far as she’s stopped it from unilaterally being able to open its border,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “There is no threat to New Zealand, there is no entry point
Nobody told me there’d be days like these: strange days, indeed… John Lennon We live in strange times, my friends. Women have penises, men get pregnant and our Australia’s one-time bitterest enemy has become our best friend; while our erstwhile best friend plays Mean Girl and runs
20th April 2021 The abductions continue. Daw Nway Nway Hlaing was abducted from Hpa-An in Karen state today. And still it continues. Shunlei May Shwe a 22-year-old student at Hmawbi Technological University was abducted by the Junta’s security forces. It is thought that the Junta has
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
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,
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
