News item: New Zealand Trade Minister advises Australia to show China more “respect”.

New Zealand has offered to teach Australia its special brand of bend-over diplomacy in order to get back into China’s good books.

The generous offer came from Kiwi Trade Minister Damien O’Connor who went as far as offering to mediate a trade settlement (by which he meant a capitulation) on our behalf.

It comes a month after his kowtowing colleague, New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta, offered to negotiate a truce (by which she meant a surrender) with China.

But more significantly, it comes just two days after China agreed to...