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Craig Ranapia

Wed, 23 May 2007 15:12:27 +1200

Gee, someone's been hiding Winston First's poll numbers from the Great Leader, walking him through the script and making sure the podium is properly electrified in case he does lose his mind and diss the emergent market. Kudos, MFAT!

And I do love the whole 'Respect!' thing — I guess…

Hadyn Green

Wed, 23 May 2007 14:11:16 +1200

Bro, it's gone further than that, the Chinese* pirated a whole theme park!

*Sorry for the blanket blame

Hamish N00nan

Wed, 23 May 2007 13:53:09 +1200

Those cunning Chinese! Not only are they taking over the worlds manufacturing, but soon they'll take over the world's tourism. Imagine it: a seven day tour of Rotorua, Devon, Madrid, New York, etc etc all from the comfort of one coachliner!

There's a couple of themeparks where you can just…

Nobody Important

Wed, 23 May 2007 11:38:17 +1200

Funny!

More funny if they had of introduced him as 'Winston Pedo'

[Off topic] I saw in the news the other day that somewhere in China they are building a replica Rotorua. We are supposed to be honoured evidently, part of a sister city thing evidently, yadda yadda yadda evidently.…

Graeme Edgeler

Wed, 23 May 2007 11:10:51 +1200

Respect, Winston Peters!

You sure there was a comma? Maybe it's an order.

David Haywood

Wed, 23 May 2007 10:58:59 +1200

Alternative caption:

"I had this really fucked-up dream where Winston Peters was standing at a podium giving mad props to international students, academics, and politicians from China... and then later, when I got my photographs of Beijing developed, these images were on the film. I swear that I'll never do…

WH

Wed, 23 May 2007 10:52:54 +1200

Winston Peters is a strange cat. I remember him during the 90's talking about export led recoveries, the Phillips Curve trade off, national savings rates, and how we should try to emulate what were then known as the Asian Tiger economies.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1486206.htm

WINSTON PETERS: My experience of Asian leadership is…

Ben Austin

Wed, 23 May 2007 10:29:14 +1200

Wow, he really seems to be getting into this Elder Statesman thing.

Might I ask what the New Zealand Centre actually does? Please don't tell me they have "NZ studies".

Public Address

Wed, 23 May 2007 10:29:14 +1200

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