Canada-China Relations committee  Thanks for that question. You have to be very clear-eyed about the CCP. You are not going to catch every aspect of the CCP's or China's active measures. It's going to come at you like a wave, endlessly. I think we need to learn from the experience of Lithuania, Estonia, Finland

Canada-China Relations committee  What we see with the American experience is that Chinese government-associated companies or actors and state media have to register as what they are. It helps to curb behaviour. It's only one tool to deal with this. We have to have a range of tools.

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for your question. Actually, we haven't seen anything like the awful incidents that have been occurring in the United States, for example. We have a history of racism against our New Zealand Chinese population, a very similar one to Australia's. There was an idea of yel

Canada-China Relations committee  You are really testing me today. We are still having this difficult conversation on it within our government. Also, the problem that New Zealand has is that we only have three years for our Parliaments. In 2017, suddenly the conversation of Chinese political interference became

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for your question. I think New Zealand, Canada and Australia have many similarities in our parliamentary systems and laws, and I think we would benefit from exchanging information on what works and what mistakes we want to avoid. I do think that we need the system of

Canada-China Relations committee  Parliaments can talk to each other separately of the Five Eyes signals intelligence conversation. Just because parliaments happen to have this other relationship through Five Eyes doesn't mean that every interaction we have is with Five Eyes. I'm talking to you from New Zealand a

Canada-China Relations committee  For each national election and also each local government election, the New Zealand Parliament does an assessment afterwards to see how it went and if there were any concerns about it. My government held two separate inquiries into foreign interference, with an overall review o

Canada-China Relations committee  That's a big question to answer, but I think the passion we've seen is similar to what I have documented in my paper, “Magic Weapons: China's political influence activities under Xi Jinping”, that was put up on the website of Wilson Center. I used the template in that paper to

Canada-China Relations committee  I have recently written a paper assessing, over the last four years, changes that New Zealand has made since this topic of China's political interference has come into our public conversation. What we have seen that has been effective is the public conversation, a series of of i

Canada-China Relations committee  I understand. I'm in a hotel room with very limited facilities. My apologies. On the geopolitical backdrop, I've sent you some maps to look at. One of them is the new official map, the vertical world map. It's a China-centred world. It is a literal reorientation, the thinking be

Canada-China Relations committee  Tena koutou katoa. Warm Pacific greetings from Tahuna, the traditional land of Ngai Tahu. I'm going to give you a very short overview of the geopolitical context to China's political interference activities, which get called “united front work“. They can also be known as “gre