The XinJiang Dance Troupe kicked off their New Zealand tour with an entertaining performance at the ASB Theatre last night.
Since the then Trade Minister Phil Goff signed the FTA with China last year, the business relationship between New Zealand and China has increased to the point of China being our third largest trading partner after the US and Australia.
Apart from Trade and business, events and tours like this help to promote cultural understanding and the people-to-people contact and friendships made are just as significant as the financial gains made from New Zealand and China’s growing business partnership.
I hope to see many more cultural and musical groups come to these shores and enthrall, connect, educate and entertain the people of New Zealand
They look nice and colourful, I bet it was a good performance.
I got to meet a couple of the participants in the show today. Lovely people, but very difficult to get any sort of discussion out of them in relation to the Dalai Lama. They seemed to startled and frightened when I brought it up.
Bit difficult to forge a relationship with people who are unwilling to engage on matters of current affairs and topics of common concern.
That’s because it’s akin to talking about Hitler in the middle of a cordial conversation with a German.
Provotative and unnecessary. Clare
Probably weren’t interested in talking about it because that’s probably the most ignorant thing I’ve heard in a long time. Wow.
I’m not quite sure the D alai L ama and H 1tler can be conflated except, perhaps, if one had passed through the Chinese Government’s education system. But, consider my bringing up the topic here as an act of mischief in protest at our Prime Minister’s exhibition of pragmatism over principle.
And a challenge to Labour.