Nanaia Mahuta’s recent ‘accommodation’ of China in not joining the attempts of Five Eyes to pressure Beijing over human rights is merely confirmation of a direction of travel: away from our traditional allies and ever closer to China. The ‘taniwha and the dragon’ as Ms Mahuta has it, need to respect each other.

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