Personally I am impressed with our nuanced position. We have criticised China repeatedly over their appalling human rights abuse issues against the Uyghurs, their questionable influence in the Pacific and their brutal crackdown in Hong Kong while acknowledging our reliance on them for Trade thanks to John Key’s ‘all our cows in one Beijing paddock’ strategy. We have signalled that we will continue to criticise China’s human rights abuses while also stating that we will start to de-couple our trade dependence on them. Th sticking point that has enraged overseas is our clear statement that we won’t use the 5 Eyes as the vehicle to do that criticism.