But Should A Globally-Recognized Leader Of This Brave Wee Nation Really Be Bowing and Scraping and Curtsying (At Today's Summit On China In New Zealand) To A Government That Has Likewise Been Shown By One and All To Be Engaging In Unbelievable Persecution, Torture and Even Genocide/Ethnic Cleansing (If THAT Is Actually What It Amounts to) Of Its Own Citizens - Whether Uighur Muslims or Its Large Christian Minority? The Facts Do Seem To Confirm As Much, Which I At Least Find Somewhat Intolerable In the Extreme...

And, no, I'm not herein singling out Jacinda Ardern for especial criticism, for *Helen Clark's (and John Key's) protestations about our fragile trade relationship with the People's Republic are equally reprehensible for what they don't say...

...and, anyhow, there was a day and age in which decent-hearted folk actually believed that moral considerations ever trumped mere economic and financial ones, but evidently that time has long since passed, including evidently for New Zealand's Green Party, a regular grandstander on international human rights, at least when it concerns our Western allies - and especially Israel - but is ever and always utterly missing in inaction whenever it comes to calling out such nations as China, Iran, Pakistan - need I go on?

And as far as John Key is concerned, surely the 'great leaders past' of our once proudly independent nation would've been turning - if not squirming - in their graves when he and his government deemed it appropriate to fly the kiwi flag at half-mast upon the death of one of Saudi Arabia's monarchs, a nation whose own history in terms of human rights is so awful that it could make one's head swim were one to give it overly much consideration...

*Both former long-serving prime ministers of our nation, John Key from 2008 through 2016, and Helen Clark from 1999 to 2008 (before she assumed the United Nation's #3 position).