Appeasing the dragon

The Foreign Minister’s analogy of the taniwha and the dragon was a lot of smoke. She (and her boss) are trying to obscure the fact that NZ is valuing its trade with China over the, far larger, Anglosphere.

Like with the non-nukes moment, which was unarguably counterproductive (Professor John Ferris explains this very well in his latest book) and only offended our friends, it looks like Nanaia’s taniwha will be the same as Lange’s “uranium on the breath” — albeit less eloquent and less explicit.

Andrew Parsons, ra¯kei.