Such 'egregious offences' including/comprising - but by no means limited to -
*The treatment of its ethnic (Muslim) Uighurs
* " " " " newfound territorial 'appendage', the once proud little city-state of Hong Kong
*Its all too evident imperialist designs upon Pacific Island nations c/o oodles of foreign aid
*Spying on Overseas Critics in/Meddling in the Internal Affairs of New Zealand and Australia (in particular)
*Dismissing - and Glossing over the Investigation of - the Origin of Covid-19, Quite Easily the World's Worst Pandemic Since the Spanish Flu of the Post-WW1 Era
*A Brutal yet Under the Radar Crackdown Upon Human Rights in Mainland China, Not Least Amidst its Burgeoning, Even Exploding Ranks of (Underground, Home Churched) Christian Believers
And to round out the list (for a seventh 'offence' one never ever hears a mention of - as NZ Deputy PM Winston Peters might put it, "Not a murmur, not whisper" - from ye mainstream media), how about the following tidbit of info gleaned from an impromptu discussion with a stranger - ?Kevin? - outside The Warehouse Central (soon to close) in Dunedin a couple weeks ago (now)...
*Citing a couple of the **various '-Stans' - as in Ex-Soviet Union/USSR Republic variety - in particular the 'K' ones, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (but notably not ***Kurdistan), he informed me how - totally unbeknownst to me, and doubtless pretty well one and all - forces from/of the Chinese Mainland Government are apparently stationed in different parts thereof (as in an occupying force, akin probably to the Russkies in Crimea etc), militarily controlling the same
Though one expects some mainstream commentators - i.e. the ones ever and always enamoured with 'economic growth' and the like - to be ever strident critics of folk like Jami-Lee Ross and Winston Peters who to their immense credit do not happen to believe that filthy lucre (from China or anywhere else for that matter) is the be-all-and end-all of all that matters in life, what one might not expect is the reaction - or should I say 'non-reaction' - of others in the political space, who're equally loquacious about their views upon this, that and the next thing...
Yes, how very interesting - but moreover utterly inconsistent - that some of the very ones - including standard-bearers upon the Western political Left, especially media-based...themselves one-time 'champions' (for want of a more apt term) of pretty well the first noted (presidential) advocate in the U S of A of such 'morality in foreign policy', i.e. President Jimmy Carter...-as against the likes of his (immediate) successor, Ronald Reagan-
now are quite literally nowhere to be found...
Double standards? Hypocrisy? You be the judge...but, quite frankly, it's proving increasingly difficult to arrive at any other 'logical' conclusion...
For my money - scarce as it ever is - I welcome Ross' (and Peters') 'interventions', small as they are (in the overall scheme of things) as a welcome breath of fresh air in global 'realpolitik'...and would remain 100% behind them even were they ultimately to result in a revocation (by China) of its 2008 free trade deal with our nation - evidently one of, if not the world's first - recognizing - for my part - that some things matter (a whole lot more) than a nation's financial balance sheet...
Being able to look at oneself (including as an independent, self-respecting nation) each and every morning with a clear conscience surely matters as much....
Do you not agree?
**Curiously enough an inexplicable source of (at times, i.e. over recent years) 10-20 or so 'hits'/results (as in page views by) upon both this (in particular) and my initial (Nuff Said) blogsite...
***Of course this is not - presently - an independent nation as such, but many (like myself) believe - long since - blimmin' oughta be...
*The treatment of its ethnic (Muslim) Uighurs
* " " " " newfound territorial 'appendage', the once proud little city-state of Hong Kong
*Its all too evident imperialist designs upon Pacific Island nations c/o oodles of foreign aid
*Spying on Overseas Critics in/Meddling in the Internal Affairs of New Zealand and Australia (in particular)
*Dismissing - and Glossing over the Investigation of - the Origin of Covid-19, Quite Easily the World's Worst Pandemic Since the Spanish Flu of the Post-WW1 Era
*A Brutal yet Under the Radar Crackdown Upon Human Rights in Mainland China, Not Least Amidst its Burgeoning, Even Exploding Ranks of (Underground, Home Churched) Christian Believers
And to round out the list (for a seventh 'offence' one never ever hears a mention of - as NZ Deputy PM Winston Peters might put it, "Not a murmur, not whisper" - from ye mainstream media), how about the following tidbit of info gleaned from an impromptu discussion with a stranger - ?Kevin? - outside The Warehouse Central (soon to close) in Dunedin a couple weeks ago (now)...
*Citing a couple of the **various '-Stans' - as in Ex-Soviet Union/USSR Republic variety - in particular the 'K' ones, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (but notably not ***Kurdistan), he informed me how - totally unbeknownst to me, and doubtless pretty well one and all - forces from/of the Chinese Mainland Government are apparently stationed in different parts thereof (as in an occupying force, akin probably to the Russkies in Crimea etc), militarily controlling the same
Though one expects some mainstream commentators - i.e. the ones ever and always enamoured with 'economic growth' and the like - to be ever strident critics of folk like Jami-Lee Ross and Winston Peters who to their immense credit do not happen to believe that filthy lucre (from China or anywhere else for that matter) is the be-all-and end-all of all that matters in life, what one might not expect is the reaction - or should I say 'non-reaction' - of others in the political space, who're equally loquacious about their views upon this, that and the next thing...
Yes, how very interesting - but moreover utterly inconsistent - that some of the very ones - including standard-bearers upon the Western political Left, especially media-based...themselves one-time 'champions' (for want of a more apt term) of pretty well the first noted (presidential) advocate in the U S of A of such 'morality in foreign policy', i.e. President Jimmy Carter...-as against the likes of his (immediate) successor, Ronald Reagan-
now are quite literally nowhere to be found...
Double standards? Hypocrisy? You be the judge...but, quite frankly, it's proving increasingly difficult to arrive at any other 'logical' conclusion...
For my money - scarce as it ever is - I welcome Ross' (and Peters') 'interventions', small as they are (in the overall scheme of things) as a welcome breath of fresh air in global 'realpolitik'...and would remain 100% behind them even were they ultimately to result in a revocation (by China) of its 2008 free trade deal with our nation - evidently one of, if not the world's first - recognizing - for my part - that some things matter (a whole lot more) than a nation's financial balance sheet...
Being able to look at oneself (including as an independent, self-respecting nation) each and every morning with a clear conscience surely matters as much....
Do you not agree?
**Curiously enough an inexplicable source of (at times, i.e. over recent years) 10-20 or so 'hits'/results (as in page views by) upon both this (in particular) and my initial (Nuff Said) blogsite...
***Of course this is not - presently - an independent nation as such, but many (like myself) believe - long since - blimmin' oughta be...
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