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Issue 53 EN-CH

Palmary 53 EN-CH

PALMARYSEEKING THE BEST ALWAYS THE BEST
总第53期 ISSUE 53 新西兰 New Zealand
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No cold war

By David Mahon

David Mahon calls on New Zealand to act in its own best
interests and do its best to avoid the US-China strategic rivalry.
Among the growing uncertainties, there are opportunities for us,

he says

Some commentators argue that China and the United annihilation. But China does not want a commercial conflict,
States are moving to the brink of a cold war. and even less a military one.

The US is manoeuvring somewhat blindly, placing tariffs Within six months of a presidential election, the Republican
on Chinese goods, embargoes on US technology companies Party is stoking the fires of nationalism, keen to shift blame to
supplying Chinese firms, restrictions on US Government China for its ravaged healthcare system under the onslaught
pension funds investing in Chinese stocks, trying to reduce of COVID-19, tens of thousands of avoidable deaths from the
US businesses’presence in Hong Kong, and firing salvos of virus, soaring unemployment, and stumbling economy. The
intemperate presidential tweets. nationalism and demonising of China will increase leading up
to November and then likely abate in outward intensity, while
But the United States and China are far from a cold war. continuing in substance, regardless of which party wins the
election.
The US and USSR shared little economic interdependence,
and while direct military conflict was mostly avoided, the sides In the face of US belligerence, China’s best strategy is non-
often displayed the means and will to destroy each other. China action. China has not always followed this strategy, but been
lacks the conventional military means to fight the United States, well-served when it has managed not to react. Not reacting
yet possesses the ballistic nuclear capability to engage in mutual will continue to benefit China over the next few years, possibly

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giving the United States time to step back from the brink and see
that its actions hurt the US economy while not damaging China
substantially. Beijing is undertaking many economic reforms the
US mistakenly accuses it of resisting. In March, Beijing issued a
licence to US stressed-assets manager Oaktree to purchase and
trade highly sensitive and largely state owned non-performing
bank loans. Chinese banks are now open to foreign buyers,
and foreign life insurers, futures, mutual fund companies and
securities firms are free to take controlling stakes in their Chinese
counterparts.

Beijing now understands that Washington is determined to
damage and curtail its economy by almost any means, and carry
out previous threats to decouple, not just from China but from
longstanding trading partners, allies, and international forums.
China and the world are watching the US pull out of, or otherwise
damage one international body after another, and place over 30
countries under economic sanctions.

Empires usually fail from within long before they are
overtaken from without. The American Empire, still so wealthy
and powerful, is faltering internally. Its democratic processes are
broken, both political parties are captive to corporate interests,
and that key instrument of a transparent and functioning political
system, the rule of law, has become an ideological tug of partisan
political interests as Republicans and Democrats struggle to stack
and coerce the Supreme Court. Absent schadenfreude in some
quarters in China, the leadership perceives America’s demise as
a risk to global economic stability and prosperity.

You’re either with us or against us

Smaller nations cannot always expect to walk a line between If New Zealand fails to include Huawei without justifications as
the US and China deftly, taking neutral stances while relying on it builds the national 5G network, its relationship with China may
the understanding and trust of both sides. Neutrality confers suffer, including possibly from Chinese non-tariff trade barriers.
a degree of political irrelevance on a country, something The US has still been unable to demonstrate security or technical
geographically isolated New Zealand cannot afford. reasons to reject Huawei, something Britain deduced in January
before bowing later to pressure from Washington.
Most Asian economies, while relying on China, depend on the
United States to maintain the balance of power in the region. New Zealand’s interests would be better served stepping back
Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia have all criticised China’s from the Western anti-China herd and finding its own position,
territorial claims at some point in recent years, but with the hard to do when one of the government’s coalition partners is
exception of Vietnam, avoided damaging their relationships working to take New Zealand back to the 1970s, when in a real
with Beijing. One of their shared strengths is that they are not cold war New Zealand supported many of the United States’
bound to an alliance of the Western elite through the‘Five Eyes’ foreign policy positions.
intelligence sharing network.
In disputes between the US and China, New Zealand has
Unless New Zealand is firm in measuring its participation in thus far managed to act in its own economic interests, and in
the Five Eyes club, it will erode the independence it has so long accordance with the tenets of international law it deems fair.
striven to maintain. New Zealand will not always get it right, and at times will need
to criticise China’s actions. But for now New Zealand’s political
Canberra’s China policies are but echoes of Washington’s. integrity and economic relations with China appear to be in
New Zealand needs to question whether it wants to be associated reasonable balance.
with a US foreign policy that is increasingly belligerent, bereft
of any cogent strategies, and recklessly anti-Chinese. New Recovery and growth
Zealand’s choice at the end of May not to join the other Five Eyes
nations in condemning the Hong Kong security law is a positive The recovery of the Chinese economy has gathered
indication of Wellington’s determination not to take sides in a
complex situation that China sees as an internal matter.

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momentum in the last months and will be the main engine of the produce and protein sectors of China. A number of industries
global recovery in the years to come. More than ever, China’s could apply the Zespri‘free market co-operative model’, a
trading partners (of which 1�7 trade more with China than the collaboration that is not a formal co-operative like Fonterra, but
US) should look to their own common wealth and economic the expression of the unity and clear commercial aims of a single
stability, and not be influenced by the fulminations of a sector. Zespri enjoys the support of 9�% of New Zealand kiwifruit
rudderless United States. growers. This model may be adapted to the meat, seafood,
forestry and manuka honey sectors, to name a few.
China has the potential to lend crucial support to the global
economy through the force of its domestic demand. For eight New Zealand’s government announced an NZD 50 billion
years, consumption and services have been China’s main fund to support economic recovery and alleviate suffering
economic drivers, rather than domestic investment and exports. as a result of COVID-19. It would be prudent to allocate NZD
COVID-19 seems to have been constrained and controlled in 10 billion to a national‘value’fund that invested in good
China to the degree that over 100 million people travelled for businesses, increasing their scale to take on global markets, and
leisure during the country’s five-day May holiday. No spike in doing so increasing tax revenues and employment. It could
in coronavirus infections has been reported. Auto sales were be managed by the best commercial and strategic minds in the
down 79.1% year-on-year in February, but up �.5% in April, country, regardless of political affiliation (a true team of rivals),
the first monthly increase in auto sales growth since mid �01�. generating dividends to New Zealand taxpayers and the means
Smartphone shipments fell 5�.7% YoY in February, then rose of its own expansion as a permanent resource for a country often
17.�% in April, �.5% higher than the previous April growth rate. starved of domestic investment capital.
Nominal retail sales grew �%.
Such a fund would soon attract the interests of global
Opportunities for New Zealand investors, both sovereign and private, seeking the security, value
and transparency of the New Zealand economy. The fund could
New Zealand has an opportunity to consolidate its position in not only look at the primary sector but innovative technology
in such areas as food safety, health care, computer games, and
film and television. With more companies of scale, New Zealand
would be in a better position to establish strong commercial
platforms and establish brands, not just in China but in growth
markets such as Indonesia, India and Vietnam. There are over
�00 million consumers in ASEAN’s ten member states alone.

New Zealand is well considered in China and respected for
its history of tenacious independence. New Zealand’s free trade
agreement with China has given it unique advantages, helping it
avoid the worst aspects of the Global Financial Crises, as it may
mitigate the worst effects of the global economic slump caused
by COVID-19. All major economies will be competing for Chinese
customers to revive their beleaguered, debt-laden economies,
and so New Zealand needs to approach China in a new way, with
greater unity and well considered and resourced commercial
strategies.

David Murdoch

David Mahon is the Executive Chairman of Beijing-
based Mahon China Investment Management Limited,
which was founded in 19�5.

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Deng Bangzhen, a painter and one of Rewi Alley’s adopted sons, colors a statue featuring Rewi Alley in
Auckland, New Zealand, Aug. 30, 2019. (Xinhua/Guo Lei)

Finding Rewi Alley:

Following the footsteps of
China’'s most loved Kiwi

By Andy Boreham (安柏然)

A s a foreigner living in China, it’s easy to start working from home under COVID-19, so I decided to dive deep
§§ feeling like you’re just an irrelevant cog in a into the life of a fellow New Zealander who not only left a huge
§§ massive machine, and question whether you’ll mark here, but is still remembered fondly by millions of Chinese.
ever truly be able to make an impact here.
Those worries started to creep up for me during my months His name is Rewi Alley, and he first stepped foot on China’s
mainland at Shanghai’s Shiliupu, Dock 16, on April 21, 1927. He
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didn’t know a single person in China at the time, but would go Rewi was able to secure some changes,
on to spend the remaining 60 years of his life here, eventually including better quality food for child workers,
counting some of the country’s greatest leaders among his improved safety conditions, and access to
friends and acquaintances. medicine.

What did Rewi do? Political awakening
When Rewi first arrived in Shanghai, he wasn’t
Rewi achieved a lot in his long life in China - definitely too very interested at all in politics. But Shanghai’s
much to detail in this column. White Terror, a period of time where suspected
communists were captured and executed by the
Dave Bromwich is president of the New Zealand-China KMT, helped him decide where his allegiance lay.
Friendship Society, which Rewi himself had a hand in setting During his later years in Shanghai in the late 1930s,
up way back in 1952. “I always consider Rewi has three, distinct Rewi met some important internationalists who
legacies that are quite significant,” he tells me over a shaky pulled him deeper into the politics of the time,
Zoom connection. “Establishing the Bailie education philosophy ultimately leading to him protecting numerous
and schools, establishing the cooperative movement, expressed underground revolutionaries in his home, as well as
today as Gung Ho, and encouraging international peace and setting up a radio on his rooftop to communicate
mutual understanding between peoples of China and people of with the Red Army outside the city.
foreign countries.” “He didn’t really become political until he had to,” Elspeth
explains. “Until he really had to make a choice between the
Rewi’s cousin, award-winning novelist Elspeth Sandys, Nationalists and the Communists.”
explained who he was in simpler terms. “(He was) a great Leaving Shanghai
humanitarian, I would say - a man with almost no personal needs By 1938, Japan occupied most of Shanghai, except for the
or feelings that he was owed anything.” International Settlement. Rewi decided it was time to leave to
set up his Gung Ho industrial cooperatives around the country,
Helping Shanghai away from Japanese controlled areas. That brought his decade in
Shanghai to an end.
After he arrived in Shanghai, Rewi secured a job within But the city remained an integral part of his China story.
days as a sub-officer at what is now the Hongkou Fire Station. Elspeth is sure that Shanghai was a major factor in his life.
Soon he was promoted to the role of chief factory inspector, “Shanghai is far more essential to him than Beijing,” she says.
where he was charged with ensuring the city’s factories “Shanghai was where he became the Rewi Alley we know now,
were up to standard. It was in that role that he began to see Shanghai made him into that person.”
suffering daily. From 1953 on, Rewi lived and worked in Beijing, spending
much of his time writing, translating old poetry from the Tang
“… he witnessed and saw a lot of atrocious working dynasty, and receiving important international guests. He passed
conditions,” Dave explains. “Children locked in factories away on December 27, 1987, at the age of 90.
working 12 hours a day, appalling conditions, no escape if
there was a fire.” People watched a photo exhibition of Rewi Alley on Spet. 27, 2019 in
Wellington, New Zealand. (Xinhua/Lu Huaiqian)
So Rewi did his best to enact change. “When he was a
factory inspector, he really started to put the boot in,” Elspeth This article was originally published in Shanghai Daily
remembers. “He would talk to factory owners and tell them
they were murderers and they were child killers - you know, he
didn’t mince words.”

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