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My fear is as the alternative BRICS financial infrastructure is expanding at pace, finally seriously threatening to break free of the Transatlantic Imperial Bankers Empire grip, NZ remains among only a few nations that remains manning the oars of our present slave master ship, right unto it is sunk by the new game in town, without having even entertaining the thought that because our already terrible position we have nothing to lose by giving the other game in town a shot.

Nothing to lose as we are already on the cusp of losing everything at hands of the financial crimes of the Transatlantic Imperial Bankers Empire we worship at the alter of presently.

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New Zealand has increasingly become a “market taker” over the last decade or so, with exports shrinking to a number of top 10 countries other than China. High reliance on primary produce is probably a factor, but perhaps the seemingly unstoppable surge in exports to China, until recently, has made the goal of expanding trade with other markets less urgent. Onshoring and geopolitical tensions are probably going to make the challenge even harder for a country unwilling to spend adequately on STEM in schools and R & D. China knows this, and while wanting a trophy to hang on the wall, will quickly cry wolf when NZ crosses its red lines.

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