NEW ZEALAND BECOMES FIRST CORE WESTERN TERRITORY TO JOIN CHINESE EMPIRE

New Zealand's anti-Western PM Jacinda Ardern (left)

by Trad News

The core of the West is the so-called "Five Eyes" nations -- namely the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. But now it seems that one of them, New Zealand, has effectively defected to China.

Fears that this might be the case were raised last year when New Zealand's Labour-led coalition government signed up for China's Neo-Imperialist Belt and Road "initiative."

As The London Times reported at the time:

New Zealand has broken away from its western intelligence allies with an offer to support China’s contentious global infrastructure and investment project.

The Belt and Road initiative involves Chinese state banks offering funds to develop transport schemes around the world to facilitate trade.

Supporters present it as a development initiative but critics say it is primarily to advance Beijing’s strategic interests, and even a form of “debt colonialisation”.

The confirmation that New Zealand was seriously diverging from the rest of the West, however, came following China's recent decision to strengthen its grip on Hong Kong, with a new raft of "security laws" that overturn its treaty obligations to maintain a "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement until 2047.

When the other four "Five Eyes" nations issued a joint statement condemning Beijing's tyrannical power grab, New Zealand's Leftist government instead decided to side with China.

As reported by the New Zealand Herald:

New Zealand did not join Canada, the UK, the US and Australia in a joint declaration condemning China's national security legislation on Hong Kong although Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters did reiterate the government's "deep concern" about the situation.

New Zealand is a member of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance with those four countries.

"On important issues like this, New Zealand will sometimes decide to join other like-minded countries and sometimes to make a statement alone," a spokesperson for the Minister of Foreign Affairs said.

"What is important is that we share the deep concerns expressed by other democratic countries in their statements overnight about the introduction of this legislation. This is clear from Minister Peters' statement."

Yes, break ranks and instead issue a wishy-washy, weak-as-water, thick-as-shit statement about "Muh deep concerns" that means fuck all.

That'll really show the Chinese!

Peters, who is a Maori, was also smacked down recently when he "accidentally" supported Taiwan's membership of the World Health Organisation, something that the Chinese government is dead set against, because it fully intends to force democratic Taiwan to unite with Communist China at some date in the future.

As reported by Business Insider:

China warned New Zealand this week that it risks damaging the countries' relationship after New Zealand's deputy prime minister backed Taiwan rejoining the World Health Organization.

"We hope that certain people in New Zealand will stop spreading rumors and creating trouble and work to enhance instead of undermining bilateral mutual trust and cooperation," China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lihan, said in a press conference on Monday.

According to official Chinese policy, Taiwan is not a separate country but rather a breakaway province and part of "one China." Until 2016, Taiwan was an observer at WHO, under the name "Chinese Taipei." But China objected after the election of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and the country was again excluded.

Meanwhile the other four Five Eyes countries are moving towards an increasingly confrontational stance against China. On Friday (29th May), Trump said that he no longer considered Hong Kong to be separate from China and would remove its privileges:

"This week, China unilaterally imposed control over Hong Kong security," Trump told reporters. "This was a plain violation of Beijing’s treaty obligations with the United Kingdom in the Declaration of 1984 and explicit provisions of Hong Kong’s basic law. It has 27 years to go. The Chinese government’s move against Hong Kong is the latest in a series of measures that are diminishing the city’s longstanding and very proud status. This is a tragedy for the people of Hong Kong, the people of China, and indeed the people of the world...

China’s latest incursion, along with other recent developments that degraded the territory’s freedoms, makes clear that Hong Kong is no longer sufficiently autonomous to warrant the special treatment that we have afforded the territory since the handover.

China has replaced its promise formula of one country, two systems, with one country, one system. Therefore, I am directing my administration to begin the process of eliminating policy exemptions that give Hong Kong different and special treatment. My announcement today will affect the full range of agreements we have with Hong Kong, from our extradition treaty to our export controls on dual use technologies and more, with few exceptions. We will be revising the state department’s travel advisory for Hong Kong to reflect the increased danger of surveillance and punishment by the Chinese state security apparatus.

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