Dr. Wordman
New Zealand (NZ) is an island country, like a small hoe held in hand, the nail head on the north (North Island) and the handle on the south (South Island) are separated by a tiny Cook Strait. The tip of the nail head is called the Northland, and down below is Auckland, a more often-heard name. Go to the strait, Wellington is at the north, Marlborough at the south, and followed further south by Canterbury and Southland, and with long beaches to the west (Westland) and northeast area (Bay of Plenty). NZ population is only five million people (5,227,980 in 2023, 71.8% European, 16.5% Maori, 15.3% Asian and 9% Pacific Islanders), and the national GDP is $25,969M, ranking fifty-two in the world. Due to its geographical location, it has no enemies, and because of its colonial and immigration history, it has a close international relationship with Australia and U.K. It has joined the United States, Canada, the U.K. and Australia members of the Five Eyes Alliance for intelligence gathering and sharing. On other international relations affairs, NZ can act quite independently. My first impression of NZ came from my parent's friend, ROC naval General Ma Yanheng. He visited many places and loved NZ, so he immigrated with his family to NZ. Although the author (living in the U.S.) did not keep in touch with the Ma family, he paid great attention to the news of NZ and Australia while researching Sino-US relations and international issues. He especially followed several Chinese news commentaries and TV programs in NZ with excellent anchors.
Speaking of NZ news, the contribution of Chinese journalists deserves praise from the international community. In addition to promoting economic and cultural exchanges between the Chinese community and other communities in NZ, these NZ Chinese-language TV news and commentary programs are of high international standards with accurate, broad, and fair news coverage. Considering the ideological influence of today's international media under the control of capitalists, NZ's Chinese-language daily international news channel and professional world news commentary have become a sweet spring in the desert for Chinese people around the world. Immigrant Chinese are controlled and induced by their national media, often ignorant of international news. For example, on the Russo-Ukraine war or the competition between the U.S. and China, war news, sanctions and anti-sanctions reported by the NZ Chinese news are not only factual reports but also with fair comments. The author has been a loyal viewer and noticed that the 33 TV station is very low-key, especially in its programming and its staff no (special promotion is made). The programs the author often watches are 33 南北線, 33 視界觀, and Good Morning New Zealand, all produced by New Zealand 33 Chinese TV station. The excellent anchors are Mr. Zheng Jingwei, Ms. Dou Rong, and Ms. Song Yuxuan, Ms. Zhu Sihong, Mr. Zhang Menghua and Mr. Andrew Wong and so on. What is more worth mentioning to my readers is that by watching these programs on YouTube, due to the time difference, you get more daily, fair and international news coverage than all major media in the U.S.
Recently, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, flying without resting planes (馬不停蹄）, went to visit various countries and worked hard to maintain the U.S. hegemony policy. On the one hand, he was pretending soft begging to talk to China, and on the other hand, he was rushing to create an alliance network against China. In the Biden-Sullivan-Blinken Indo-Pacific strategy, the U.S. is, in addition to strengthening armaments in the island chain, eagerly establishing the Australia-UK-US alliance (AUKIS), the quad-party alliance (US-India-Australia-Japan) and pushing NATO into Asia to replicate the Ukrainian war crisis in Taiwan Strait. Between July 24th and 29th, Mr. Blinken went to Tonga to attend the inauguration ceremony of the US embassy, went to New Zealand to watch the Women's Soccer World Cup, and then went to Australia to hold a ministerial meeting. But his real goal is strengthening the US policy of encircling China and maintaining US hegemony by heightening the threat to China and creating a battle ground around China. The Tonga embassy is to increase U.S. influence in the island country region, and trip to NZ is to pull it into AUKUS to participate in the Nuclear Submarine Cooperation Joint Venture. However, NZ's Foreign Minister Mahuta maintained that NZ's independent diplomacy stance is firm and has a clear position of against nuclear weapons. China's attitude towards nuclear weapons: ‘never to use them first, and it will never be used against non-nuclear weaponized countries’ is much more agreeable with NZ’s anti-nuclear stand.
Many countries, including NZ, have gradually increased their understanding of China's human rights issues that the U.S. has been agitating in the past. The Hong Kong issue has been resolved by China’s National Security Law, which stopped foreign influence (like NED) to sponsor civil violence provoked by external spies and media. Uyghurs' civil rights can also be seen in the Chinese government's successful poverty alleviation. The living standards of most Uyghurs have improved rapidly. A small group of Uyghur civil tights activists supported by the U.S. can no longer use old, fabricated stories to argue with visible facts. In less than half a century, Xinjiang has been developed, with deserts becoming cotton, tomato farms, and forests. The Uyghur people have become rich, and the Uyghur population has increased. Compared with the treatment of native Indians in the U.S., the issue of civil rights is not in China but in the U.S. The Chinese government strives to invest capital in poor areas and in poor people. China's third-tier cities are better than some of the world's metropolises, exhibiting high-speed railway and highway infrastructure, environmental protection, green energy, and electricity. Farmers' lives are improved with the introduction of technology and innovation. The Chinese people living a good life which Obama is afraid of and trying to prevent is a shameful thought. Everyone's gains should be proportional to their own efforts. Isn't that the fundamental idea of joint development along the Belt and Road initiative? NZ is a developed country. It does not agree with the selfish zero-sum idea of limiting any country’s development to catch up with the developed country. It is an honorable attitude. It can be said that NZ has written a chapter in history by taking the above-discussed stance. This chapter may reduce the probability of nuclear war on Earth. Participating in the nuclear alliance is indeed like making a deal with the devil, selling one's own soul, and ultimately, we all perish. Nuclear submarines cannot defend and can only attack, thus they only attract counterattacks. Why does the U.S. want to deploy nuclear submarines in Australia and New Zealand? Pushing the offensive power deep into the Indo-Pacific and putting the danger of nuclear war on the Indo-Pacific people is just evil thinking!
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