Read the Herald's account of Labour kissing Chinese President Hu Jintao's arse over Taiwan and Tibet. Bet the PM didn't raise any human rights issues at all. When the "President" of a vicious totalitarian state tells the New Zealand government how to conduct its foreign policy, the entire Cabinet sits up and begs for more; when the President of the United States modestly suggests that a way might be found around differences between the US and New Zealand, the Red-Green axis gets all breathless about US "bullying".
A free trade agreement with China? On the economic issues alone, the idea is monumental in its idiocy. There isn't a single important NZ manufactured product that can't be made or counterfeited in China at half the price. Does anyone really think Chinese consumers have the disposable income to pay for clean, green New Zealand agricultural products? Add to that the bleeding obvious fact that a free trade agreement with a country that doesn't have a convertible currency is a contradiction in terms and one wonders where the stupidity ends. Where are the labour unions on this? Not a word, even though a free trade agreement with China would shut every factory in this country.
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