The Federal Government is fuming after New Zealand's Trade Minister suggested Australia could mend ties with China by showing its government more "respect."Some Australian MPs have expressed frustration when asked about the commentsChina and Australia are mired in several disputes and Beijing has targeted multiple Australian exports with sanctions, although the campaign of economic punishment has not escalated further so far this year.
In contrast, New Zealand this week formally signed an upgrade to its 2008 free trade deal with China. In an interview discussing the deal, New Zealand's Trade Minister Damien O'Connor was asked about a suggestion from their Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta that the nation could mediate between Australia and China.
Mr O'Connor said New Zealand had a "mature" relationship with China and could raise issues of concern, but added it also respected its trade ties with Beijing. "If [Australia] were to follow us and show respect, I guess a little more diplomacy from time to time and be cautious with wording, they too could hopefully be in a similar situation [with China]," he said.
Rubbish... its a 2 way street, they have no respect for anyone. NZ doesn't count for China as their trade with each other is minuscule.
The NZ advice to Australia to respect China fails to recognise that China itself has behaved in a way that does not deserve respect.
New Zealand's trade minister should mind the facts that China's regime show no respects to treaty obligations and consular rights of foreign nationals in their country; not to mention their human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong.
I am afriad Kiwi has not studied enough history. Look how China handle the joint declaration signed with the British government on Hong Kong issues which was registered in UN. China needs Kiwi to isolate Aussie and they never honour any treaties. Watch out Kiwi.
Very easy to say when you live on Australias back, but then rely on other countries to bring up the important issues ...
NZ is just ignoring all the wrong China has done. Why didn't NZ sign the letter criticising China regarding the incarceration of activists? They were to gutless to stand up for what's right, so they could stay pals with China. Now criticise Aust for their relations with China?
Amazing how many people can’t get or do ‘respect’, or be diplomatic. Doesn’t mean one can’t be critical, as we should be of ourselves too. Lost in the binaries of us and them, right and wrong ... unable to see an issue from anything other than a narrow partisan perspective
Great. Aussies need to learn how to respect others
What a flog
Damien O'Connor can also remind you China has many secret prisons that hold thousands of Political prisoners they have NO human rights! .. enjoy your trade deal mate... while the rest of the world will hold China and the Communist Chinese party accountable for the covid19 virus
Damien O'Connor / NZ are an absolute hypocrites !!! Damien O'Connor is happy to rub up to the Chinese Communist party . To receive sweet trade deals from China!! Australia and the rest of the world. Have every right to ask China how did the covid19 Virus start in Wuhan City
That's a very .... submissive.... position that NZ is adopting towards a totalitarian regime that murders its citizens, suppresses free speech and threatens other countries if they do not accept the CCP bribes.
What a load of shit
Respect is a 2 way street. China also needs to show some respect to Australia: NOT: doctored pictures on Twitter; “gum on the shoe”; targeting Aus imports etc
Mind your own business
Kiwis have always been a bunch of arse lickers ... nothing new here
Fuck it.. China needs to show it first..
I believe 'kowtow' is the word they're looking for. No thanks, NZ.
The gov in NZ is smart and they know politics , and they have a good leadership , unlike the Morrison Gov which is the opposite...
Thanks for the advice NZ! Now shut the hell up and lick the toes of your Chinese masters.
Respect a country that murders its own people and deliberately spead the corona virus for its own gain ? No thanks!
Is the NZ minister called Neville Chamberlain by any chance?
No, we don't want to follow you
We. Don't show respect to bullies
Even O'Connors wording sounds like it comes from the Global News handbook. You've got to admit China has it down pat in the way it manipulates dialogue. Our issues are not just trade, its land & ports ownership, uni students in essay writing fraud, researchers being pd for info.
Sadly this is not the first time appeasement has been recommended as a strategy for dealing with totalitarian regimes that imprison millions of their own citizens. UyghurGenocide HongKong SouthChinaSea chinaindiaborder
At least China doesn't have proud boys to cry hey Hitler.😁😁
'Bend the knee.'
It’s called selling one’s soul NZ ! Yet you expect Australia to support you in the Pacific and ask for our help the the supply of vaccines. Mind your own business and Ora yeh at you preach !
Show respect Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ....
Bc NZ wineries have been sold to China too
Works both ways... Maybe when China stops hacking government, business and universities.
Morrison government doesn’t have basic diplomatic skills
Chuna can go fuck itself..Sorry NZ, you on your own here..churr
The US🇺🇸, the EU🇪🇺, Japan🇯🇵, S. Korea🇰🇷, ASEAN, Russia🇷🇺, Brazil🇧🇷, S. Africa🇿🇦, Australia🇦🇺... Who are the largest trading partners of these major economies in the world? It's all China🇨🇳. This is why China must increase its voice in international affairs.
No worries. China doesn’t change her policies every other day. So, Australia has lots of time to think about how to mend relations by, I’d say, 2030🙄
Australia treats it's citizens just as bad! Denying them medical treatment treatment, allowing people to migrate here give them jobs only for them to abuse their position of power. Deport now! PLEASE SHARE THIS!!
These comments crack me up Trade with our cash cow was fine until the government fucked it up. Now some wanna claim the high moral ground. Give me a fucken break 🙄 We nearly wiped out a race of ppl, put kids in detention centres, fed more propaganda than the Chinese are ffs
We won’t be taking any lectures from that CCP sellout I’m afraid, none at all. It’s a strange day when Australia has more ethics than NZ when it comes to dealing with China but here we are. Time for NZ to grow a set or become a new province of Communist China
How about we do the same as China and put some tarrifs on NZ goods until they show us some respect.
NZ will become the new China, if they continue to suck up to the CCP
Once own up to own faults then respect is increased
What an Arrogant Statement from a tiny Country like NZ who want to now kowtow to the bullies in The CCP in China . Mind your own Business and dont try to Lecture a real Leader like Scott Morrison just because you have a weak Leader like Adern . Be careful what you wish for NZ .
Kowtow
Ardern would be the last person I would listen to for advice..
Mind your own effing business Damien O’Connor and just concentrate on your own country
He needs all the advice he can get. Thanks NZ!
Can imagine the spleen being released in Canberra this evening. Deservedly so. NZ PM gag your liability quick smart. I foresee a “bubble” bursting elsewise. hehe.
Australia needs buy more weapons from US. China will show some respect. FreeHongKomg
🤮 I’m ashamed to be a Kiwi. Australia should not be trading with China. Starve those fuckers out until they stop abusing their citizens.
Morrison has been nothing but respectful. But he's standing his ground because it's the right thing to do, and we Aussies support him. Respect doesn't require taking the knee. NZ can do what they like, but they're wrong about this.
China doesn't deserve respect. People who pretend to respect China don't deserve respect either.
Respect is earned champ
I see this as great! NZ has bowed down and kissed Chinas feet and are Chinas new play thing to control. We can move away from China and forge real honest trade agreements with ethical, humane and democratic nations we can trust
Iron ore given a reprieve, but temporarily. As soon as Brazil gets her act together in 2022, she will replace Aus as China's no 1 source.Get off your bums, Aussies miners, start looking for new customers before a devastating affect the whole mining industry.Same goes to farmers.
Bow down and call them master, that is the respect they want.
HKWORLDCITY Respect is earned, not bought. Shame on you NZ!
NZ just need to fuck up and mind there own business. Fuck China
Fuck China
N.Z .... puppets of China...... at least we now know not to trust N.z ever again
Why world have to pay China industrialization cost in this way ClimateCrisis
Exactly.
Just bending over to the cccp
Get fucked NZ
NZ is a great country with good people but it’s a little pisspot economy and we don’t need lectures from fellow socialists about how to handle the unethical CCP.
HKWORLDCITY
How about we tell them both to fuck themselves?
No thanks. NZ is welcome to be next after Hong Kong.
NZs on the sauce. The soy sauce apparently.
The absolute pearl clutching in the comments
How about their respecting our sovereignty and culture. Our government was kind enough to allow China to own our land fully aware that we cannot own 1 square inch of theirs. Respect works both ways...
Why the hell do we have anything to do with these sycophant Kiwi's? Time to rip up any trade agreement we have with them and start to kick them out, they only come here to control the drug trade and commit murder.
Maybe somewhere between the two approaches?
scottyTheBully is useless
In all honesty Jacinda need’s to pull her head in
Nice look New Zealand - let’s ignore the genocide, the human rights record, the untold pain and damage it’s caused the globe with COVID-19... must get good trade deal 👍 must encourage others to look the other way too 👍
Australian don't respond to finger pointing
BernardGyorgy I don't think Aussie politicians are keen to mend ties with China. Still a U.S. vassal state, remember? Still waiting for instructions from Washington ... No green light yet? Yawn.
Love U NZ, but fuck off.
Bend down and let the RMB come in where the sun don’t shine without Vaseline
Just like the Uighurs have been advised to show 'respect'
The NZ minister is right
NZ need to get on board with the alliances being formed to counter China's inevitable expansion by force. After all, defence of NZ is defence of Australia. And their current Defence Force consists of a Haka.
Lol.... their going to he re running that clip to old mate in a few years time. When NZ has learnt what bending over to Chyna gets you.
More lectures from NZ.
Hey China chill or your arrogance will be your downfall just like Imperial Japan. Dont want beef just listen
Weak as puss.
NZ mind your own F$&& business
All Aus PM did was to ask for fair investigation of the outbreak aka justice and closure for families of over 2 million ppl killed worldwide & the Chinese Overlord decided to punish small Aus businesses. At least Australians have balls to stand up to a bully.
If China wants respect they might try showing a little
First find ministers who know the meaning of the word.
NZ has become one of the province of the China under CCP management. How can they teach OZ deal with relationship with CCP ?
I called this. When the CCP asks them to bend, politicians and journalists in New Zealand and Australia will crawl. They’re invertebrates
Easy: Australia releases all Chinese unlawfully detained in Villawood detention center, get a chartered flight to send them back to China, I'm sure things will be good as new.
This means war.
Subservience might not be the best place to start.
China wouldn’t have become the bully it is now if the world hadn’t been silent - like what NZ is proposing - on China’s human right violations for so long. No thanks to this unsolicited advice from NZ.
Good luck eating your cheap lobsters
Mend ties with Communist China? Are You kidding . Go as far as You can from Chines communist country. Stay away.
So Australia raises concerns about some of China's social and economic behaviours and it gets a lecture from NZ? Seems about right.
If you in the NZ government wish to lick Chinese ass and let them take over you land in the not to distant future then go ahead. Me personally I’m sick of the red peril dictating to us.
You give respect when you get respect.... and not threatened...
NZ and their simp leaders can go get stuffed! Free Hong Kong, free Tibet, free the Uighurs and all other persecuted groups oppressed by the CCP!
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NZ has been in China's pocket for years. China is only interested in deals if it is all their way.
MsRonnyB ScottMorrisonMP You should always take advice from people with a proven track record of experience. Reflect on your own outcomes for instance and go from there.
MSMWatchdog2013 Didn’t think I’d disagree agree with NZ so strongly. Wild times. That’ll be a firm get f*cked from me NZ. It’s odd they are playing right into Xinhua’s hands with these statements. Is there a country on earth that isn’t blind to Chinas Soft Power games? Is everyone of us a fool?
Remember NZ's main industry appears to be Fish, a large amount packaged in PRC while we are getting more for our barley, coal and iron than before the blockade. The reason CN hates us so much is that alone in the region, we have the capacity to talk back. Keep it up I say.
If New Zealand wants to investigate the origin of the virus, the deal will become historical paper tomorrow
Very ABC. So what?
Seems to be a good PM this Ardern 😔 oh well, can’t have everything
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A deal, how amazing. China is really good with keeping deals
Kiss ass Kiwis :)
Yep just bend over and take it up the arse ! Easy for the sheep shaggers but Australia won’t bend like that! All of our targeted exports I finding new markets every day. China relies on our iron ore and is buying at record levels, The Australian economy will do just fine.
Lessons being a Patsy. Thanks but no thanks, NZ.
Lol as you get on your knees and kiss the emperors shoes. As if Oz will follow this lay over tactic. Stand up and proud and punch the dragon in the face!
Wtf is actually wrong with NZ and all these 'leaders' doing china's bidding? It's minutes to midnight. Time for the rest of the planet to snap out of it and step up.
Is the NZ minister compromised .
With your population of course you will bow to china😂😂😂😂😂
Genius! Like telling someone their little brother is better at something. All the progressives will applaud like chumps too
It needs to go both ways, otherwise we are just crawling and feeding the superiority complex.
Tell the piss farting, tin pot little country to shove their advice where it fits
Respect is two way. I see no mutual respect from Beijing. It’s our way or no way.
yeah, it's easy but nuts.
nathanlawkc ipacglobal CANZUK hkdc_us hk_watch actparty mcdowallact
Australia is a multicultural society that includes (among others) Uighurs, Tibetans, Hong Kongers who have been adversely effected by China's barbaric policies; general Australians adversely effected by China's hostage policy & trade blackmail. Respect needs to be earned.
Landslide victory ? Now paying the price of stupidity !
God it would be great if NZ focussed on themselves and stopped lecturing.
And lick Chinas boots 🥾,Thanks but no thanks.
All they've said is exactly what our professional diplomats have been saying we should do. Shame scomo doesn't listen or know how to do any thing but bully tactics.
Fuck China
Shoulder to shoulder just like the invasion of Singapore in WW2...
New Zealand has always hidden in Australia's shadow regards to their defence & security. So it is easy for them not to stongly engage directly with the CCP Chinese government on issues such as defence including Taiwan & the South China Sea. Kiwis's come out of the shadows.
NZ pollies are getting too big for their booties methinks. Can we offer directives on how to manage the out of control violence and Pacific islander horrors which have scarred NZ for decades?
BS -you lot have simply grovelled to them
fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkk off you weak cunts N.Z kiwis just cause you people are a weak nation and take the back foot always thats up to you flops stay in your own country and be cowards there dont bring you shit here . FUCK OFFF
All these Aussies bitching about China is pathetic. Pretty sure China don't give a shit what Australians think and feel and it's putting money where it's mouth is and walking the walk.. One thing the Chinese have learned from the Americans is Might is right and talk is cheap.
Not hard us it!
Bomb china!
Australian people need to remove Scotty from marketing. He's a worse monster than Trump. Vote Labor in the next election!
New Zealand is progressive. Australia is regressive with China. The liberals and nationals are incapable of dealing with anyone different.
That’s a bit rich! 🙄
Pretty sure this 'respect' doesn't mean to kneel down in front of China, rather it means something more like a 'I respond you with a you're welcome after you thank me' kinda thing. Being two adults in this relation can be good to both sides.
If Australia mends ties with China, NZ will have a big competitor😥. Australia now have stronger partnership with other countries, that’s the market. Be confident with our products, they will know how excellent Australian made is.
Truth is china don’t give a stuff about NZ simply not relevant.
NZ should have followed Australia's lead in gun control.
Sometimes China are the bad guys, and sometimes China are the good guys. TheirABC
Is that kiwi speak for suck up.
That will drive ScottMorrisonMP into a rage filled diatribe. He's very competitive towards jacindaardern who out smarts him at every turn. Rest assured, he won't take advice from 'that woman' even if it's good and sound.
Good on you NZ. Just don’t cry later 😂
F*ck China
What resources does N.Z sell to China ? Wool/lamb anything else
Slight problem - a million Uighurs in 're-education' camps, Hong Kong democracy crushed, foreign journalists and business people imprisoned in retaliation, military threats to all and sundry in defiance of international law and Taiwan expecting an invasion at any moment. Respect?
jacindaardern NanaiaMahuta Damien O'Connor makes kiwis feel ashamed!Kowtowing to RMB with pride is something very naive n disgusting,he’d better study more histories of CCP b4 bluffing around. NZ Respects Genocide? Being Chamberlain won’t do anything good to our country!
how dare she....
Women will always lie down for an invading force. Their best chance of survival and possibly a stronger new husband and kids. Men have to fight to survive. Oh the privilege!
Tell the nz minister that we’ve been there, done that & good luck for their future.
only stuff i really buy from china is cheap electronic gadgets and clothes at kmart, i can wear clothes from anywhere, and get electronics from somewhere else, im sure countries other than china like eating beef steak and drinking wine
Children love scolding their Bigger siblings. But it can sound awfully Arrogant.
Both D O’Connor and S O’Connor of NZ may have a point or tow to make to Australia.
Its up to China to mend ties with Australia, the United States has already flagged a multi national approach to China, it would be just stupid to wind things back up only to have another trade dump in an international spat. NZ is an international irrelevance.
This guy is obviously on the take from China. How low will NZ go?
Yeah, be a good little globalist like Jacinda. Build Back Better, and respect mah authoritay...
Tell New Zealand to stop sucking up to China and tell China to piss off.
Respect goes both ways, stop with the propaganda!
Show respect for what? For aribtrary tarrifs being imposed on our exports? For Chinese belligerence in the SCS? For Chinese bribing our politicians and corrupting our universities? Like asking an abused spouse to respect the abuser, in the hope they might stop...No thanks, NZ
If NZ wants to sell out to China that is their business. Foreign interference from a backwater country such as NZ is not warranted.
FREEWORLD politicians with no morals & no sense of freeworld pride or decency may do deals with murderous lying treacherous slithery China, but THE PEOPLE, the CONSUMERS of the FREEWORLD do have a CHOICE in what we buy! Don't support NAZI CHINA with FREEWORLD $$$ ! BOYCOTT CHINA!
The great irony here is that Mr O’Connor is being painfully undiplomatic in lecturing Aus on how to conduct is foreign affairs and through the media no less.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA! Fuckin choice bro, go snuff sum glue eyy
How many pieces of silver Jacinta?
In other words, bend over and say baaaaa
Be a sheep? How embarrassing 🤷🏻♂️
It’s called smart. How business is done.
NZ noticeably opted against signing the Aus/Can/UK/US letter criticising China’s incarceration of pro-democracy activists. NZ now have the nerve to gloat about their new trade agreement and suggest Aus follow their lead and ‘respect’ China. Weak politics by NZ to undermine Aus.
Wasn’t NZ the only member of the 5 Eyes NOT to condemn China for the arrest of more than 50 opposition parliamentarians and activists from Hong Kong a few weeks ago? I am aware they did their own thing but it’s only a team effort when it suits NZ it seems.
well PM started as a barking dog forTrump Now he'd need to crawl in shame to China so he is stubborn even though we r losing billions he is toughing it out Just ego thing
Now we know why NZ didn’t join all the other 5 Eyes Countries when they jointly condemned China’s recent treatment of Hong Kong Officials. Doing the deal.
Elect a commie leader. Become a vassal state.
Straight from the Neville Chamberlain book of diplomatic appeasement.
Always support Morrison!Jacinda Arden is selling NZ and her soul for money! She is radical leftist!
Who says you have to show respect for your customers?
Respect must be earned - bullies don't deserve respect. China respects no country - why promote a one way option.
Mmmmm. It's not rocket science. Something very hard for Trump groupies and anti China ideologes like Payne and Morrison to do.
Somebody tell this kiwi boomer if he tongues the underside of Xinnie's boot any harder, Twiggy's gonna get jealous
I predict NZ will use the Anus covid test that China has since they like to bend over.
Is this advice part of the belt and road initiative agreement?
F••k that, I'd rather recognise Taiwan than sell my soul.
He means “mend ties by grovelling” . Something NZ politicians seem to have picked up from Jacinda 😂😂😂😂😂😂
That’s ridiculous! Is NZ government acting as an agency of China ？
I would've just said: buckle up, it's gonna be a hell ride with Morrison at our wheel
ScottMorrisonMP doesn't do respect unless it's at his mirror every morning
‘Truth is treason in an empire of lies.’ (Ron Paul)
Biggest exports to China are timber and diary products both add to green house emissions
Boot locker
jacindaardern is a diplomat, ScottMorrisonMP is not.
You mean bend over and take it because unethical $lave Labourer$ is where it at right?
China have established their modus operandi with Australia, punish it comprehensively even if it means short term pain. Australia will face years of recession. ALP will inherit high inflation and high interest rates and get the blame.
No chance. It’s crazy that they turn a blind eye to internment caps and a crackdown on hk democracy advocates to make money? I thought Jacinta was all Kumbaya on that stuff.
china can jump
So maturity is allowing regimes to do what ever they want as long as you profit? The New Zealand government are very mature then. I wonder what the average NZ citizens think of this policy
Respect is earned.
It is possible to respect individuals while having contempt for their ideas.
Piss off Damien.
Frig china
Shame on NZ. It keeps blind eyes on China’s human rights. That is what it means respect
That's how twiggy does it everytime when he see his Chinese mates
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