This is edition 2025/106 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
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This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.
Enjoy!
1. China blindness
Simon O'Connor
- 🌏 Many former NZ leaders champion independent foreign policy and human rights but ignore CCP abuses, focusing solely on economic ties.
- 🤐 Helen Clark and others, vocal on global human rights, silent on CCP's atrocities like Tibetan cultural suppression.
- ⛓️ CCP erases Tibetan culture, yet global leaders like Clark remain silent, contrasting with their vocal criticisms elsewhere.
- 🇹🇼 Misrepresentation of Taiwan's status by ad authors, suggesting PM restrict MPs' movements, undermining democratic principles.
- 🤝 NZ recognizes Taiwan's sovereignty, has strong ties, but ad authors echo CCP views, ignoring Taiwan's democratic rights.
- 🛫 Outrageous suggestion to restrict MPs' travel rights undermines NZ's democratic values, critiqued as authoritarian overreach.
- 📰 NZ media gives platform to CCP Ambassador's economic views, overlooking human rights abuses, contrasts with CCP media control.
- 🇨🇳 Former PM Jenny Shipley praises Xi Jinping, highlighting cozy relations with authoritarian China, contrasting with NZ's democratic values.
