New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, under Ardern’s Labour government, has set another scary precedent in relation to China.

‘I don’t think the Foreign Minister has a clue what she is doing!’

This is a recent comment I heard from a fellow New Zealand citizen during a long-awaited post-pandemic trip home. Whilst these words were perhaps not suitable to be spoken in Parliament, they struck a chord, especially in the context of New Zealand’s latest venture to extradite Chinese citizens.