Q+A: Dr Anne-Marie Brady
China’s political influence needs investigation – Dr Anne-Marie Brady
A warning from Chinese politics expert Dr Anne-Marie Brady today that New Zealand is unaware of the level of China’s
political influence, which she says includes our Chinese-language media being “co-opted”, close contact between our
political parties and political donations. She’s urging the government to address these issues. “We need to have a look
at it. There’s other countries who have parallels with us, like Norway, who don’t follow the method of campaign
donations. It’s state-funded according to your votes. And that’s one way to protect a nation against political
interference,” she says.
Dr Brady is urging the government to be “proactive for the changing global order” and examine our legislation.
“Geopolitics [is] moving in different directions from where they have been for the last couple of hundred years, and New
Zealand is part of where China is now interested, moving south.”
Link to the interview
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