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Clark and Brash join forces to slam Luxon’s ‘radical’ foreign policy shift

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Former Prime Minister Helen Clark and former National Party leader Don Brash have joined forces to criticise current Prime Minister Christopher Luxon for what they describe as a “radical change” in New Zealand’s foreign policy.

Their concern centres around Luxon’s recent comments in an interview with The Financial Times, where he indicated New Zealand’s willingness to disclose cases of Chinese espionage and openness to joining the AUKUS Pillar 2 defense partnership with the US, UK, and Australia. They argue the shift could jeopardise New Zealand’s crucial trade relationship with China.

In a joint statement, Clark and Brash highlighted that these developments represent a significant departure from New Zealand’s ‘traditionally independent’ foreign policy.

Clark, who led New Zealand when it signed a free trade agreement with China, and Brash, a former ACT leader, said that aligning too closely with US military interests and publicly calling out China could have severe implications for trade and economic security. They pointed out that no indication of such a policy shift was given during National’s election campaign, making Luxon’s recent statements ‘particularly surprising and concerning.’

Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour, currently acting in Luxon’s absence, dismissed claims of a drastic policy change, saying discussions about joining AUKUS Pillar 2 were ongoing under the previous government. Seymour defended the government’s stance on addressing Chinese espionage, contrasting it with the behaviour of democratic allies.

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  1. And american espionage eh… Eh luxon.. American defense espionage eh luxon..?
    What about the freemasonic epsionage luxon or the zionist espionage luxon??????? 🐍💩

  2. While on the topuc of espionage, lets look at the espionage of clarke and ardern conspiring to fulfill zionist global climate fraud by KILLING OFF OUR PEOPLE WITH EXPERIMENTAL GMO INJECTIONS?
    HOW ABOUT WE INVESTIGATE THAT
    L U X O N ??????????
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  3. Clark and Brash walked arm-in-arm protesting the Vietnam War in their uni days…
    Any idea that AUKUS and these Masonic ‘Pillars’ are good for New Zealand are severely and disgustingly delusional.
    The Bald-Headed One is on a Zio-Globalist Bankster Leash, doing their bidding and jumping for a treat whenever they say ‘jump’…!
    We need new snap (s)elections in order to stop this globalist insanity under the World Banksters, the WEF, WHO and Israeli Mossad operatives.
    If we don’t we could see PLA Operatives go active complete with their uniforms and weapons stashes, as well as Russian autonomous Poseidon nuclear torpedoes parked off of Welly, Christchurch and Auckland.
    AUKUS is already a failure, as is NATO, and the Bald-Headed One wants to play with ‘The Big Boys’ up north who are risking nuclear war with their Luciferian Zionist agendas!
    Jabby and Baldy seemed to come from nowhere, and poof- there they are, on a global mission to ruin New Zealand.
    & the Cabinet isn’t much better either in their delusions and lying to themselves that we are not in an economic depression, and not acting to cap or freeze prices on commodities, services, and food! (maybe they own shares in greedy Foodstuffs, etc.?????)

    • The Bald One is certainly a new world order puppet… NZ is in trouble…still…other cheek of the same arse although the comparison of a bird is a nicer mental picture, I prefer the arse because it’s more representative of the shit they shower the people of this country with… a boycott? They would prefer that, then they can take all your property and businesses in one fell swoop. They are already planning to do that anyway….come the next Bird Flu Plandemic in order to stop the US elections from happening? Just a possibility…I don’t put anything past them and the Bald One was once termed by a friend of mine as Uncle Fester and/or Penis Head…I like the latter… more affixed to the backside we all get showered under…

  4. Just another bunch of fifth column globalists to replace the last lot….the despicable misappropriation of taxpayer money to line the pockets of military industrial complex….

    What’s really telling, is they can’t see anything wrong with continuing the policies of the last govt, who were thrown out of office, because people had had enough of them….

  5. Currying favour with the warmongers this clown is looking to grease his way into a new job now the public are begining to wake up to the reality that he’s just another idiot in the long line of idiots we have already had

  6. Why don’t they all just F*** off. These so called “leaders” don’t have a mandate to do half the Sh1t they do. Ask the people FFS. They never listen to us and then they complain about the hate they get……😡

  7. The people have the power to stop this crap close NZ down don’t go to work until they do what the people want.they are just doing what their puppet masters want and you are letting them.

  8. A bird has two wings. A left wing and a right wing but the bird remains the same. Luxon was in his element visiting his old US stomping ground, a brief one on one with Biden and oozed how sharp he was??? This non drinking Christian never hesitated to donate $16 million tax payer dollars to keep the jolly old Ukraine war going. The same bird that defends the Net Zero nonsense. The same bird that cowered in the Beehive when Comrade Ardern unleashed her Stasi thugs on the Wgtn protestors. The list goes on and the bird doesn’t change.

  9. We didn’t have an election, we just had a change of management and a re branding. Strange thing is that Luxon is now glad-handing the same people Adern was, remember Adern was WEF, Blackrock friendly and a communist, Luxon describes Larry Fink as his old boss.

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