I have formed the conclusion that we cannot trust the National Party to responsibly uphold New Zealand’s interests when it comes to dealing with the Communist Party of China. This is a great pity, because our two major parties and all minor parties currently in Parliament are all only too happy to deal with the Communist dictatorship in China, whether that be economically, socially, culturally or militarily
Look at this example from May this year – Sir David Carter (former Speaker of the House and former National Party Board member) attended the “China-Pacific People-to-People Friendship Forum” hosted in Fuzhou. He attended in his capacity as Patron of the New Zealand – China Friendship Society, a key ‘United Front’ organisation. That is to say, it is a mouthpiece for Communist Chinese propoganda, as Professor Anne-Marie Brady of Canterbury University wrote in her ‘Magic Weapons’ 2017 booklet outlining communist Chinese influence operations:
[T]he New Zealand-China Friendship Society (NZCFS)… went into decline from the 1980s on, and struggled to retain membership. Now thanks to significant support from both the PRC and the New Zealand government, a re-invigorated NZCFA is again promoting China’s interests, but this time it is an economic agenda – One Belt, One Road.
Brady, Anne-Marie, Magic Weapons – China’s Political Influence Activities under Xi Jinping. Clingendael Institute, 2017
That’s the Belt and Road Initiative that Simon Bridges signed NZ up to when he was Minister of Transport. It’s the initiative that locks in Chinese influence and even outright ownership in key economic infrastructure around the world, establishing debt traps in many countries who now totally depend on Chinese ‘aid’ to maintain their infrastructure.
Here’s Sir David Carter delivering a speech at this CPC propaganda festival, where he talked about how much he admired the Chinese economic achievements of the past 75 years:
In my lifetime, this is the most amazing economic take-off in the history of human civilization… China has become a superpower, and the status of a great power will continue to improve in the next 75 years.
https://www.sohu.com/a/680351580_121687424
This is unfortunate to say the least. Sir John Key is a like-minded hyperstooge of the CPC, because to him, it’s all about the economy. Never mind the bullying, genocide, and naked aggression China has shown in the last several years. The National Party had a former (or was that current?) Chinese Intelligence Agent as an MP. (So did Labour, but this post is not about them).
I can tell you as a fact that it is impossible to get debate at the highest levels of the National Party about Chinese malignant influence in our region and our own country. The Lower North Island conference passed a resolution asking for Defence Spending to be raised to 2%. It was vetoed from being debated at the National Conference because “we don’t want to upset China”.
I can’t support a party that puts the Communist Party of China ahead of New Zealand. It should be illegal to support any ‘United Front’ organisations, either here or abroad. Yet here is Sir David Carter doing Xi Jinping’s bidding. And he’s not the only very senior National Party figure doing so.
No Minister 
Your comments confirm something I’ve suspected ever since I read various comments about China here at No Minister by former Cabinet Minister Wayne Mapp, collected in Mapping the National Party
On the Chinese MP’s
On the concerns of Ann-Marie Brady and diplomat Finny about China:
On how New Zealand should deal withChina:
Undue influence on NZ strategy and policies come from many foriegn places -not just China. just think of all those unelected officials in the UN, WHO, WEF who have plans for how you should live your life.
I think we need to realise NZ is not a world power, and is simply a small remote pacific country that specialises in virtue signalling and telling anyone who will listen how great they are.
NZ’s msm may keep telling kiwi’s what to think, how great they are etc, but they have no control over how the world views NZ.
Perhaps one day NZ will stand on it’s own feet and be largely self sufficient, therefore mostly immune to these malign organisations, but that wont happen unless Kiwi’s grow some balls, rather than hide from a man made cold.
Sabre rattling by the vegetable in chief, leader of the free world…
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/breaking-news-biden-orders-to-active?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Of course these events listed below where selected limited reserves were also activated under section 12304 of the US Code are “sabre rattling” too no doubt.
Intervention in Haiti (1994-1996; 6,250 reservists involuntarily activated).
Bosnian peacekeeping mission (1995-2004; 31,553 reservists involuntarily
activated).
Low-intensity conflict with Iraq31 (1998-2003; 6,108 reservists involuntarily
activated).
Kosovo mission (1999-present; 11,485 reservists involuntarily activated through
2003; no available data since then).
Ebola outbreak in West Africa (2014).
Enhanced Department of Defense Counternarcotic Operation in the Western
Hemisphere (2020).
Of course in this case no more than 3000 reserve personnel across the US Army, Navy, USAF, USMC and USCG will be called up to Operation Atlantic Resolve and likely to be from the service support elements.
Sir David is what I call a rice christian.
This term refers to distribution of rice to those they supposed were beleavers by Chinese missionaries.
If you were a Chinese peasant starving in a famine and you could get food by clasping your hands together and closing your eyes what would you do?
An intriguing tangent to the CCCP’s appeal to National Party’s fellow travelers
The Chinese Foreign Minister’s disappearance and claims that he was involved in a mistress scandal are covered in the YouTube video that is linked below.
A Chinese media celebrity who does interviews with foreign leaders, according to the YouTuber, is the mistress.
Her interview with former PM John Key has been removed, The only interview that has been handled in this manner.