New Zealand is not part of the recently announced military pact between the US, Britain and Australia targeting China, but Prime Minister Ardern welcomed their aggressive engagement in the Pacific region.
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While many of the NZ Woke were attempting to sell concerns about the Wuhan outbreak as xenophobic in early 2020, TDB was one of the first NZ media to argue that this wasn’t an identity politics issue and in fact had all the ingredients of a global pandemic.
TDB was one of the first to claim the borders would be shut for at least 5 years.
TDB was one of the first to point out the inflation fears driven by supply side shortages.
TDB was one of the first to point out that the Lab leak wasn’t as impossible as the woke claimed.
Lot of talk around the Chinese Communist Party’s 100 birthday seems to revolve around celebrating China lifting 800million out of poverty, which sounds impressive, but is it?
Sure, China have managed to pull approximately 750m-850m of its own citizens out of living on $1.90 a day, that’s impressive b-u-t when you consider that a vast number of those living in poverty were due to the CCPs own ideological self-mutilations, it’s a tad twee to boast lifting the masses out of a poverty you caused.
You can’t set fire to your own house, wait for the embers to go cold and then declare you are proudly house fire free.
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