When a Chinese company bought farmland there was an uproar even though they couldn’t take it away, they have to operate it here and employ people who live here and use local goods and services to do that.
Contrast that to the reaction since Chinese company Haier issued a takeover notice for Fisher and Paykel.
Since it’s a company they can take it, its jobs and intellectual property away.
There has been concern about job losses but nothing like the fuss there would be if this was foreigners buying a farm.
Why is land special when F&P’s not?
A factory is machines, that need to be maintained and replaced, along with the ideas and processes that make those machines do things that are productive and valuable.
Overseas ownership means that new machines, ideas and processes may arrive in New Zealand which benefits us all – the factory is run according to New Zealand’s laws and customs and if it is not the owners risk their investment.
Land is eternal and is what the NATION stands on – when this falls into overseas ownership it is the NATION’s sovereignty that is being sold.
Rubbish. Sovereignty is determined by the laws of the land backed up by the lawful authorities.
JC
What does it matter JC – New Zealand is so far down the toilet it is probably too late, a sad little nation in terminal decline while its elites fritter away the last vestiges of anything it had of value, to keep their party going just a little bit longer
Might as well sell it to the Chinese and allow the descendants of those who haven’t seen the light and abandoned ship to become servile kholops on lands sold for a “mess of potage”.