Professor Anne-Marie Brady Supplementary Submission to the New Zealand Parliament Justice Select Committee Inquiry into Foreign Interference Activities, 2019 Professor Brady is a specialist in the politics of the People’s Republic of China (PRC, China) and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Party-State system; as well as polar issues,
Author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine Rosemary Gibson has revealed China’s “global chokehold” on the “manufacturing of medicines and medical supplies.” It has always been said that China plays the long game and the revelation of the USA’s current
Politicians all sing from the same song sheet when asked if the Chinese Communist Party is buying its way into NZ Politics. “No!” they cry in unison. Of course, they are quite correct because there is currently no evidence of large donations from the CCP going directly to NZ political
Jacinda Ardern’s fingernails must be carbon fibre enhanced as she digs them into the myth of an unbiased MSM. To the contrary, on a daily basis we receive news and opinion that is consistently unfair and unbalanced. Anyone following American politics will recognise that Trump news is predominantly liberal
“Anti-racism” is the founding conceit of the modern left. The contemporary left was founded in the 1960s and its great bugaboo was not, as Bryan Burrough shows in his Days of Rage, the Vietnam War or any of the other guff ageing Boomers congratulate themselves on, it was the Civil
As Karl du Fresne wrote recently, former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark is a “leading global figurehead” of the new, leftist ruling class. This ruling class is, as du Fresne notes, hypocritical and decidedly totalitarian: They have a decidedly prudish streak when it comes to alcohol and think the
What’s particularly remarkable about the political left, these days especially is the extent of their conceit and self-delusion. The left are utterly convinced that they, and they alone, are on the side of “good”, the “right side of history”. In Jim Goad’s words, “The modern left’s heads
Either I’m just a paranoid conspiracy theorist, or there really is a persistent nexus between left-wing politics and paedophilia. Left-wing activists, politicians and media just seem to keep getting busted for kiddy-fiddling, or acting as apologists for those who do. Still, maybe it’s all just a coincidence. I
It’s politically incorrect to admit not wanting New Zealand to be inundated with Chinese migrants – but what do I care about political correctness other than spitting in its face? It’s not individual Chinese migrants that I object to at all because my experience of them is that they
Some time back, I started to write a post for The BFD, grudgingly ceding credit where it was due to the Ardern government for banning Huawei from New Zealand’s 5G network. “That was a wise decision”, I began to write. Huawei is notorious not just for the sort of
The United Nations has not been fit for purpose for a long, long time as it has been taken over by countries who do not have free democracies and who have terrible human rights records. Now the United Nations has gone so far as to use tactics straight out of
It’s been said that you can have mass Muslim immigration, or you can have a liberal, democratic society – but you can’t have both. Of course, such sentiments have to muttered sotto voce. Anything less than starry-eyed swooning and waving of “refugees welcome” banners, as millions of military-age, single
The Chinese Government has decided that anything other than the ‘official’ line on the Coronavirus is “fake news” and anyone spreading such fake news will be ‘invited’ to spend 3 – 7 years in the slammer. I don’t suppose that WeChat has ever held itself out as a champion of
Social media has recently been flooded with giddily laudatory stories claiming that, in response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, China built an entire hospital in just seven days. A few curmudgeons pointed out that the first photos were of a hotel complex some 600 miles away, and that the building
We already know that free speech is not a principle that the contemporary left support. It’s also obvious that, for all the self-serving palaver about “your right to know”, the left are implacably hostile to a free press, too. In 2011, the Gillard government in Australia attempted to force
Rob Berg israelinstitute.nz Rob Berg is president of the Zionist Federation of New Zealand. On 29 January 2020, President Trump finally presented his long-awaited ‘Deal of the Century’, his vision to end the ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis, a conflict which has been going on in
