On 30 January 2008, at 27, Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) at their world congress in the Dominican Republic for a two-year term until 2010.
Upset she was left out ? LOL
Our boys poured their blood on that soil at Guadalcanal and other areas. We deserve better treatment than letting the Chinese build bases over there.
Why would that deal matter to New Zealand? I thought it didn’t matter what alliances a neighboring nation makes.
And New Zealand is 2300 miles away.
Right...
Like China is going to worry about a country with a leader with a name of “Jacinda”.
Has New Zealand banned chinese nuke vessels from their territory yet?
That's an example of severe "understatement"...
At least for me, who can remember FDR saying the same kind of thing about the jap expansionism before Dec 7, 1941...
Jeez, the mere thought that a major Red Chinese base could be built on Guadalcanal seems disrespectful to our WW2 patriots who fought and died there.