Notes
[1] “China and New Zealand, I. Bilateral Political Relationship and major exchange of visits, A. Chinese Visits to New Zealand,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, <http://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/bmdyzs/gjlb/3412/t17070.htm>
[2] K R Bolton, “Russia and China: an Approaching Conflict?, Sino-US confrontation Unlikely,” Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, Summer 2009, pp. 181-187.
[3] Ibid., p. 184. Bolton, “Sino-Soviet-US Relations and the 1969 Nuclear Threat, Pro-China Bias of US Establishment,” Foreign Policy Journal, May 17, 2010.
[4] Graeme Hunt, Spies and Revolutionaries, a history of New Zealand subversion (Auckland: Reed Publishing, 2007), pp. 252-254.
[5] Evening Post, May 1, 1976.
[6] K R Bolton, 2009, op.cit., p. 168.
[7] Ibid., pp. 156- 158.
[8] Ibid., pp. 162-164.
[9] K R Bolton, “Origins of the Cold War, Post Cold War,” Foreign Policy Journal, May 31, 2010.
[10] Daniel Tencer, “Soros: ‘China should lead New World Order’,” October 28, 2009, http://rawstory.com/2009/2009/10/soros-china-world-order/
[11] National Endowment for Democracy, the world revolutionary apparatus of the US Establishment.
[12] “New Zealand Pursue Cooperation with China,” The Evening Post, Wellington, ca. October 2000.
[13] “China and New Zealand,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, August 26, 2003, http://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/bmdyzs/gjlb/3412/t17070.htm (accessed on July 4, 2010).
[14] “China, New Zealand pledge to further army exchanges,” www.chinaview.cn, 4 July 2008.
[15] John Hartevelt, “Eyes wide shut on our Asian integration,” The Dominion Post, Wellington, July 3, 2010, p. A9.
[16] “Flying the flag in China,” The Dominion Post, Wellington, October 15, 2007, p. 1.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Ibid.
[19] John Key seemed to emerge from nowhere to become Prime Minister. He worked for Merrill Lynch in Singapore, London and Sydney. In 1999 he was “invited to join the Foreign Exchange Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY and on two occasions undertook management studies at Harvard University in Boston.” He became a National Party MP in 2002. Key’s Parliamentary profile at: http://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/john+key?bio=1 (accessed on July 5, 2010).
[20] John Hartevel, op.cit.
[21] Phil Brennan, “China Rebuilds its Military Muscle,” NewsMax, October 19, 2002. http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/18/165743.shtml (accessed on July 5, 2010).
[22] The Dominion Post, Wellington, April 29, 2008, p. C1.
[23] K R Bolton, “Water Wars: Rivalry over water resources – a potential cause of regional conflict in Asia and the geopolitical implications”, World Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 52-83.
[24] The Evening Post, May 3, 1983. Currently Dr Ball is Professor, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, ANU.
[25] The Evening Post, May 3, 1983.
[26] Foreign affairs and trade are under the responsibility of the same Ministry.
A breath of fresh air from the US perspective. Rather misses the NZ pov, though – as is stated several times in the article, the USA has essentially ceded large portions of the Pacific sphere of interest to the PRC Navy (presumably news to Singapore and Australia, or CINCPAC?) Given that New Zealand has decided its Navy can barely sustain two semi-modern frigates, then the logic for assuaging an approaching dominant regional power is overwhelming. We look forward to saying ‘Nihao!’ to the imminent Great Red Fleet.
Rather lets Australia off the hook, also – despite having an economy 7x larger than NZ (and 5x the population), the RAN can just put 2-3 of its 6 submarines to sea, and currently has no other competitive naval combatants. Australia’s resource-dependent economy is far more reliant on China’s economy than that of NZ, and they frankly envy NZ’s achievement in gaining an FTA with China.
If this seems like a “breath of fresh air from the US perspective,” then I apologise for my lack of clarity. Nothing I write is intended to be construed as being from the perspective of a world cancer.
New Zealand, including its Prime Minister, sees “Asia” as a geopolitical and cultural unity, so that NZ might become part of some “Asian community.” Such a project has long been part of the aengda of US plutocrats, most overtly in terms of the Rockefeller Trilateral Commission and Asia Society. This faction has been pushing for an Asian community for decades.
Asia is of course ridden with past, present and future crises of a myriad of types. I have theorised that this “Asia destiny” panacea will quickly fall to pieces in the event of a struggle for resources, specifically that of water; which I’ve elaborated on in “World Affairs” (India) and in the “Journal for Social, Political, and Economic Studies. ” So far China has had everything its own way, but the diplomatic facade will fall quickly enough come widespread drought for example., which is already taking place in, and with other problems such as water pollution, problems that extend from India to Russia.
In the middle of this will be thick-as-two-planks NZ, squawking moralistically but impotently in the UNO and sundry forums about the need for “peaceful resolution. ” “Yeah, right,” as the popular, but banal NZ saying goes.
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