Message from @FutaLover
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Auckland (the major city) is full of wealthy Chinese, who got in on the residency visa.
yea i know, i listen to martin north and those guys all the time
The general feeling of folks that live there is that NZ is great for those that come in with money and skills, but sucks for those who were born in bred there or for migrants from the islands.
yea it's a takeover
the chinese understand all this, it's part of their state policy
NZ has the problem as well that it has a low population that can only support so many jobs in certain sectors.
it's a purposeful takeover, they probably finance much of the austerity politics there
Well, NZ is basically equal opportunity, in that it takes investment from anywhere without seriously looking into the implications.
martin north video snapshot
he often has steve keen on, worth following them
The Chinese government is heavy into soft power in NZ.
It gave a preferential free trade agreement it wouldn't give other countries.
Which has a good and bad side.
Kinda NZ was meant to be a showpiece for China, or at least thats how China has portrayed it aka as the 'first free trade deal with a developed economy'.
The problem with that is Huawei wants to get a stake in NZ's critical infrastructure.
And NZ is in Five Eyes.
So it would create a potential backdoor into Five Eyes from NZ.
There is a similar issue in the UK as well.
report just came out today on chinese soft power in europe
Kinda if any five eyes country lets in Huawei, they need to be removed from Five Eyes, as that hurts US security.
Well, right now, the west is just way too naïve on China.
Is that some porn?
naive might not be the word
Probably.
I’m watching Fox News
willful cooperation on the part of our elites, they did same thing with USSR
I heavily disagree with the way the west has dealt with China.
It believed it could just control China.
it's Barbarian Management, from the POV of the Chinese
Asian version of British Raj tactics
that's their phrase, translated
The whole nonsense position was that China would democratize as a result of economically liberal policy.
i'm not so sure they really expected that. western elites have no problem with disgusting regimes
Well their fallback was they thought it was worth the risk and that they could control China as in the past.
Though the public face of economic and foreign policy argued that China would become more free as it opened it's economy and gradually move more towards more political freedom.
The better policy was continuing to keep China out of critical parts of the US economy, but instead the US let them into areas where they could steal US intellectual property, and build up enough wealth to become an even greater military threat.
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