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5:30 pm, February 24th, 2025 - 17 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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What insolence from Beijing, this is part of the realm – self governing like Taiwan that is all.
If they do not like Taiwan making deals without reference to Beijing I say – how dare you do this then. Total and utter hypocrisy.
MFAT should send one of the former FM's and Queen's finest to show his buttocks to them in Beijing.
Peter Fraser pointing out the flaws of the UNSC arrangement?
We go nuclear free and champion this for the South Pacific and inspire those in Iceland to do the same in Europe?
We tell them to stop what is going in Rwanda?
We do not get involved in the folly of WMD lies and regime change leading to Islamic State – yet more terrorism.
We co-sponsor UNSC Res2334 in Dec 2016 (the one that made Rainbow sound like a Farangist called Robinson).
No. Never. Do not engage with stupid.
And do not first focus on peace-making before an arms race approach?
Why would we get into bed with AUKUS Pillar 2 when its parties includes one threatening members of NATO, dissing the EU and not standing by international rules based order?
Do we not still have standards?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/a-chinese-own-goal-how-war-games-in-the-tasman-sea-could-push-nz-closer-to-aukus/G7DVDFMPRJGYTBABHNNAX7NYPE/
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The Cook Islands deal opens up the entire South Pacific to Chinese dominance – as to access, fishing and sea bed mining.
If New Zealand allows the first 5 year step within its realm, it becomes the standard for totally sovereign islands.
We do have room to move, as this involves our territory.
Planning to spend money in the future, and inaction otherwise is a message in itself to the wider region (as to past and future).
China's actions here is akin to in the sea atolls are our islands and are economic zones claimed into Beijing's orbit, but we will not use them for military purpose – then they did. The breach of trust, a deliberate insolence.
We have to act.
1.WP talks to the EU about South Pacific and European international co-operation.
2.He needs to be seen to concord with Macron and Starmer.
3.The Europeans (EU, France and UK) are invited to a South Pacific gathering.
4.New Zealand and Australia call a South Pacific gathering to discuss Cook Islands 5 year agreement – as one in breach of the South Pacific programme. And suspending the China-Cook Islands agreement (as arbiter for its realm within the South Pacific) until it conforms to a wider South Pacific plan.
The Realm has been killed by a v smart China and a fucking dumb MFAT, NZDF, and DPMC.
China had now got massive Kiribati+Cooks sea territory partnerships.
It was always a fiction that we had the defence capacity or $$$ to be a proper partnership. It's no fiction with China.
This is Luxon's massive loss of NZ standing and influence.
Maybe they feel in no position to take issue with it, because they are complicit in doing this here – open to global buy out and taking a piece of the action – untaxed CG etc …
Offloading the problem to future governments – more on defence later.
Maybe just out of their depth …
And for the record, Ardern visited the Cook Islands shortly after taking office, when she was pregnant and derided by the Nats as the "part time PM".
The super dynamic man-gets-things-done not-pregnant PM Luxon hasn't bothered going there yet.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-pacific-charm-offensive-arrives-in-rarotonga/ZSO2RMC4U76NVO4LO2ATMCULEU/
(note the last paras in that article, so let's not pretend nobody knew. Same foreign minister, very different leadership from PMs)
Hey don't blame the NZDF & MoD, the NZDF would love to have a permanent presence in the Sth Pacific but are constrained by budget cuts, the ability to raise train & sustain not with Equipment but Manpower.
But the stupidity of the NZG's & MFAT since 91!
Because the Cooks, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa & Niue have been asking for a permanent NZDF in the Sth Pacific but MFAT keeps saying No & NZG's don't want to spend the required amount of money for the NZDF to be based in the Sth Pacific.
To me it's a no brainer, because it might stop others from sniffing around, provide ISR from Air & Sea in the various Sth Pac EEZ's which are just as large as NZ's, more visible presence with the Sth Pacific Patrol Boat Program which is funded by NZ & Oz including the Training Depot out of Fiji & finally a quicker response to HADR if there was a permanent presence in the Sth Pacific.
Anyway just my thoughts on the matter.
You are not keeping up SPC. The Pacific has been renamed the Gulf of New Zealand.
Please pay attention.
Aotearoa
Even better.
Darn! The other day I mistakenly called it the Chinese Channel
that echo…
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OMG bit of a stretch joe somewhat ridiculous comparison in fact absurd imo but babble on joe .
After tRump, our turn.
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https://xcancel.com/cardon_brian/status/1893702363883446442
So as the Chinese seem to be good at bringing boats to the South pacific
Maybe we should ask them to get us a ferry
Yes, we can, but don’t ask for mate’s rates because that comes with a special price. Winston is on it and he’s been instructed not to say No.
Looks as though the Cook Islands hasn't negotiated a very good deal over ferries – one would think that China would be more generous.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/19/cook-islands-is-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-two-of-them/
We could hardly do worse than Nicky No Boats, but Winston says NO