AGAINST THE CURRENT: china

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MARKET TURMOIL

Economist Michael Roberts looks at what is driving the stock market meltdown around the world and observes that it has exposed that the so-...

Today more than 75 percent of the world's toys are made in China, with western companies lured to the country by the low labour cos...

While the New Zealand Government looks to open more doors to China, it continues to ignore the plight of the Tibetan people. It has nothing ...

Above is a photo of the Chinese city of Ordos Shi under construction. The city has been completed and is almost entirely empty. The streets,...

The Wikileak cables have revealed that the Government have been running two different polices on Tibet. One policy - the real policy - ha...

Who executes the most people? Yes, its 'our' great friend, the Chinese Stalinist regime. It executed more people than the rest of th...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs can always be relied on not to upset his friends. Last year he refused to condemn the Israeli invasion of G...

The visit of the Chinese Vice President to New Zealand was another opportunity for the Key Government to cosy up to a brutal regime that ...

Do you think the Key Government will take the Chinese Government to task for the way its security goons manhandled the Green's Russel N...

We're often reminded by our politicians of how important China supposedly is to New Zealand's economic health. It doesn't matte...

Mayor Sideshow Bob Parker has expressed his concern about the collapse of Lane Walker Rudkin and the real probability that nearly 500 jobs w...

While Fonterra might just want the poisoned milk powder scandal to go away, it is now clear that the Chinese regime is concealing the true n...

In March I lodged a formal complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority. It was a complaint about a nasty piece of Chinese Stalinist ...

The New Zealand media are all set to go gaga as the countdown to the Olympic Games opening ceremony begins. In the case of TVNZ, having spen...

With the New Zealand Government getting all cosy with the Chinese Stalinist regime, its interesting to note that China is exporting more tha...

MORE THAN 1,0000 TIBETAN PROTESTORS STILL 'MISSING' I see that Amnesty International have reported that more than 1,000 Tibetans ‘de...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise are presently running a series of roadshows on the New Zealan...

How much is the newly-signed New Zealand - China Free Trade Agreement 'worth' to New Zealand? Well, it depends on who you're lis...

Christchurch Mayor Sideshow Bob Parker is in China to attend the signing of the disastrous New Zealand - China Free Trade Agreement. He'...

The Labour Goverment's justification for saying and doing nothing about the violent oppression of the Tibetan people has been about litt...