The Tory MP said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was "crudely sucking up to China whilst backing out of the Five Eyes agreement". Photo / Getty ImagesThe Tory MP said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was "crudely sucking up to China whilst backing out of the Five Eyes agreement". But it is another move signalling the growing outcry among UK politicians over alleged human rights abuses in China. Jacinda Ardern, he said, was "a prime minister who virtue signals whilst crudely sucking up to China whilst backing out of the Five Eyes agreement, which I think is an appallingly, appallingly short-sighted thing to be doing." UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned against an emerging "Cold War mentality" towards China.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 22, 2021 21:56 UTC