Don’t tolerate New Zealand bowing to China

On paper, New Zealand is one of America’s four closest allies. In practice, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern isn’t quite the friend one might hope for in a dangerous world in which Russia and China are all too eager to flex their muscles.

Alongside Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States, New Zealand is a member of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. A bastion of the post-World War II, rule-of-law-based democratic international order, the alliance involves the cooperation and sharing of highly sensitive intelligence material. This is the intelligence inner circle of the good guys.