This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batsu with my colleague Gregory Coppoli,

defense and foreign affairs, who is my guide on Down Under. Australia, yes, Western

Australia, especially. Defense of the Five Eyes, yes, but one of the Five Eyes is

recently in the news for some strange goings on. The resignation of Jacinda Ardern,

the New Zealand Prime Minister who has led the government through the pandemic

and before. The questions arise here is why the resignation now? What does this

mean about the future of the Five Eyes of the recovery of Australia and New Zealand

together? And also, Gregory, didn't I read for several years stories about the

Chinese security, a state security penetrating in some fashion, New Zealand

government? Is that all wrapped up in Jacinda Ardern? Did that happen before her

time? Thank you. Well, John, it happened before and during Jacinda Ardern's

term as Prime Minister with the PRC attempting to penetrate the government and

parliament of New Zealand. As they've done with Australia, as they've done with

the United States, Britain and so on, and they're constantly at this activity. But

they succeeded to a far greater degree in New Zealand because New Zealand does not

have the same resources in terms of foreign direct investors like say Australia

or the United States has. So Jacinda Ardern was very, very committed to

supporting the Communist Party of China and only literally came out in sort of

opposition to the PRC's expansion into South into the South Pacific when the

PRC clearly went into territories which were New Zealand's sphere of influence.

Jacinda Ardern, though, comes from the extreme left of the Labour Party. She was in

the the International Socialist Movement. She ran the international, she was

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