Sorry about all that democracy crap

Chinese Vice President Xi Jin-Ping was in New Zild last week and a Green Party MP Russell Norman showed a Tibetan flag to him, here. This led to an over enthusiastic elbowing out of the way by the Chinese security contingent. Fair enough, honour satisfied on both sides, you might say. But no! the NZ Prime Minister has apologised to the delegation as seen here but of course, it is not about trade or nuthin' like that.
But then as is the norm with these blokes, yes it is.
"We're sorry about that man hurting your feelings about the occupation and brutal repression and all that. Golly that must have been upsetting with that scarf near you, ever so fucking sorry. We wouldn't mind having a bit of brutal repression around NZ IF YOU KNOW WHAT WE MEAN, and you do.And that voting thing at the UN, we still cool?"

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I was half-way through thinking about ranting on the same topic.

One point AK has not spelled out is that the "over enthusiastic elbowing out of the way" (i.e. assault) of the Member of Parliament was on the actual steps of Parliament, supposedly a place where MPs have precedence and make the rules (but the domain of Chinese security guards for the purposes of the visit).

This was all captured on film, with no shortage of witnesses from amassed journalists, but police declined to pursue an assault charge since the assailants all had busy schedules and were not making themselves available to be interviewed.

The government has promised to prevent any recurrence of such unfortunate events, by reviewing security arrangements so that Members of Parliament are no longer allowed on Parliament when it is in use as a venue for important foreigners.

Various serious people have tut-tutted about the possible negative reaction in China to insubordinate behaviour in Wellington. A spokesman from the New Zealand China Friendship Society talked on the radio about being all in favour of free speech and protest, and the importance of keeping to acceptable protest, with the decision about which protests are unacceptable evidently falling to the protestee.

NZ does not lack for people who welcome our new overlords and would like to remind them of their helpfulness in rounding up others to toil in the National Parks rare-earth mines.