Yes, The Chinese Dragon Is Meanwhile Hissing and Roaring For All To Behold: What A 'Magnificant' If Supremely Menacing Demonstration of Military/People Power The Other Day...With ONLY TOO MEANINGFUL THREATS To Any and All Nay-Sayers & Critics To Dash Their Bodies, Bloodied and Battered, Against China's Great Wall (One of the World's Historic '7 Wonders')...

 And meanwhile, where have several high-flying NZ politicians been thereabouts over recent times?

Effectively wining and dining *'the Great One' himself...

Sure, Helen Clark, herself 'sporting' no small pretensions to the position of a fully-fledged governing member of Winston Smith's world, having set things in motion here by ably enacting arguably the world's first trade agreement with Mainland China, has since been joined and putatively surpassed by her immediate prime ministerial successor...

John Key not only making it abundantly clear that he wasn't willing to brook much vocal opposition to his Government's own progressively cosier relationship with the power, but now being effectively 'outed': by his own honest admission, admittedly, as a good personal friend of China's supreme leader... 

*No, here I refer not to Donald J Trump's own nomenclature, but that of the present Chinese Premier...