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The Ardern government’s stance on Huawei and 5G is increasingly causing New Zealand to stand alone as a weak point in the critical Five Eyes security alliance. Where the division over Huawei will leave the Five Eyes alliance is anybody’s guess as one notable rift has already occurred.
As reported in The BFD, Britain’s decision to bar Huawei from its 5G network currently leaves New Zealand standing alone as the only member of the Five Eyes alliance to allow the Chinese company to access its 5G network. The only member of the alliance to make up its
The pressure will be on the Ardern government to once more reverse its policy on allowing Huawei to access its 5G network, following a stunning reversal from the UK. Britain had previously allowed the Chinese-owned telco, accused of conducting espionage for the Chinese Communist Party, to participate in building its
As China starts threatening other nations it is becoming increasingly apparent that we are going to have to pick sides. Australia has been directly threatened by the Chinese Government: The Chinese government has warned Australia to “distance” itself from the United States amid growing tensions between the two countries, saying
For four years now, we’ve had to endure the media elite’s incessant shrieking that President Donald Trump is “literally Hitler”. This is a failure of both English language usage and historical awareness. By definition, Trump cannot be literally Hitler – only Hitler was or ever will be literally Hitler.
As I remarked when I interviewed Australian student Drew Pavlou recently, how institutions and nations respond to China is often an acid test of principle. Leaders who bang on endlessly about climate change happily sign an agreement that allows far and away the world’s largest CO2 emitter to keep
With the world obsessed by the Xi Plague, the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has faded from the headlines. But that doesn’t mean that Hong Kong’s struggle against the Beijing jackboot has gone away. In fact, under cover of a distracted world, China has been stamping even harder
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan once admitted that, when it comes to sovereignty, the UN is often blatantly hypocritical. The UN’s own Charter supposedly guarantees the sovereignty of its members – yet the UN, by Annan’s admission, is increasingly riding roughshod over national sovereignty. Yet even the UN has
If nothing else, the Xi Plague has made painfully clear the absolute folly of depending on China. Leaving aside the moral argument of trading with a repressive, genocidal communist dictatorship, putting your economic eggs in one basket is a dangerous gamble. Especially critical supplies. An international study of essential supply
IINZ News Few of the attacks on Israel are more effective than the claim that ‘even the United Nations condemns Israel’. And it does – in any given year, the UN general assembly passes more than three times as many resolutions condemning Israel than those condemning all of the other 192
As the old saying goes, “A rule of government is never look into anything you don’t have to, never start an enquiry unless you know what its findings will be”. China has fiercely resisted holding an enquiry into the origins of the Xi Plague, threatening and bullying the Australian
Summary Page One: * WHO ignored credible reports of Virus spread in Wuhan in early December. * WHO knew that there was a “major health concern” in Wuhan in Late December. * Taiwan authorities told WHO of human to human transmission but WHO did not alert the world. * China did not inform WHO
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Despite the assiduous propagandising of the Xi regime, propaganda all-too-willingly parroted by nutters in the West all-too-ready to believe anything they read – especially if it blackens America’s name – there is no doubt that SARS-CoV-2 originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Beyond that, though, it gets murkier. Inadvertent transfer
