Adequate defences to serve our national and regional interests and to work with our genuine allies, free from globalist commitments and super-power rivalries.

We do not consider the USA to be " our traditional ally". The assistance given to New Zealand during World war 11 was based solely on US interests in the region; not to any sentimental or moral commitment to defend New Zealand. The USA has world-wide ambitions that mix global big business with a commitment to Israel. What the USA offers the world is a global consumer culture backed by guns where necessary.

Additionally, the USA has heavy investments in China as does China in the USA. Therefore the USA cannot come to New Zealand’s assistance in any conflict with China.

Naill Ferguson. (Professor of Financial History at the Stern School of Business, New York University; Senior Research Fellow at Oxford and at Hoover Institution, Stanford) states:

#….Since April 2002 the central banks of China and Hong Kong have bought $ 96 billion dollars of US Government securities." (Ferguson, COLOSSUS: THE RISE & FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE, NY,2004)

This means that " US is reliant on the central bank of the People’s Republic of China for the financing of about 4% per year of its federal borrowing".

Prof. Ferguson mentions the "GROWING INTERDEPENDENCE" between the economies of the USA and China.

We consider ant territorial threat to most likely come from Asia whose population is bursting at the seams, and where any war or natural catastrophe could prompt a mass population exodus, backed by force of arms.

In particular, China constitutes a specific and immediate threat, because of the infatuation our business and political leaders have for the Chinese economy. However, China’s economy is running amok, insatiable for oil and other resources, experiencing blackouts, rice shortages, soil erosion, flooding though climatic changes, mutation of viruses that could break into major pestilence at any time.

Our region is becoming a centre of Chinese incursions. New Zealand should have no part of it. Yet we have aligned ourselves to China in a region that is going to become increasingly volatile in terms of military expansionism caused by food/population and energy crises. Into this mess we must add the further factors of nuclearised India, overpopulated Indonesia, pressures bearing on Russia and the USA’s response to the latter, and tensions in Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and between India and Pakistan…all of which China will seek to exploit.

China is continually expanding its presence in the pacific region by bribes of aid and trade with the small island nations to fulfil these plans. New Zealand is the latest of a string of island nations that have succumbed tom China’s embrace.

# The first step in implementing a realistic defence policy is simply to recognise that potential military threats to New Zealand do exist. Therefore it must be realised that the role of the armed forces should be to protect our vital interests in this region, NOT to serve as "peace keeping" forces to be dumped everywhere around the world at the command of the UNO or in the aftermath of some US adventure.

# Every able citizen must be capable of defending the nation if necessary. We look to the Swiss model for guidelines, where universal military service is only the beginning of a commitment to defence.

# New Zealand must look first to Australia in its foreign affairs and pursue an ANZAC Alliance that will create a united front towards Asia diplomatically, economically and militarily. We cannot rely on the USA for assistance in the event of a military threat.

# New Zealand should consider the areas of Polynesia and Melanesia as the ANZAC sphere of influence. We should consider Papua New Guinea as our first line of defence. Diplomatic, trade, economic and military co-operation should be developed throughout the Polynesia-Melanesia region, with the view to displacing Chinese and other influences.