As I wrote recently about Australian prime minister Scott Morrison’s stunning rebuke to the globalist New World Order, his next meeting with Jacinda Ardern should be interesting.
But perhaps not as interesting as Ardern’s next meeting with her own deputy PM.
New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters, has backed Scott Morrison’s attack on “unaccountable” international institutions, saying many countries advocated globalism “when it suits them”. Mr Peters said New Zealand did not subscribe to the view “that globalism is ordained with fundamentally magnificent principles we should all follow”.
Well, that’s awkward. Jacinda Ardern is an ardent globalist. Between constantly shuttling back-and-forth to grandstand at the UN and extol the wonders of “our globalised, borderless world”, to her explicit rejection of classical liberalism, Ardern has planted her little, reg flag squarely in the globalist camp. Ardern is an outspoken advocate of open borders, collectivism – and the poster girl for the smug elitism of globalism.
Yet here’s Winston, talking anti-globalist heresy.
“We believe in the standards of democracy, the rule of law, and First World standards of economic accountability,” the New Zealand Foreign Minister said, after talks with Australian counterpart Marise Payne.
Mr Peters also took a swipe at Chinese President Xi Jinping’s display of military might in his October 1 parade, saying countries demonstrated their progress in different ways. “Some countries at an event like that will roll out their examples of freedom and democracy and their improvement in the economic circumstances and welfare of their people, and some might have a different way of displaying what their country is about.
“For our part, and for the Pacific’s part … we are staying put and we are here to defend our values, our sense of democracy, and the Pacific way, which has been in our DNA for thousands of years.”
theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/nz-backs-scott-morrisons-attack-on-globalism
This is nothing new for Peters, though. He was beating the same drum two years ago:
“We are not going to go with any party that wants to run the economy the way it has been now,” he said.
“A whole lot of people around the world have had a gutsful of globalism. The Chinese don’t believe in globalism, they never have.”
stuff.co.nz/national/politics/91052036/winston-peters-calls-for-economic-nationalism
Which is mighty fine rhetoric, but raises the awkward question of just how he reconciles his anti-globalist rhetoric with the reality of installing Globalism Barbie as Prime Minister.