Christopher Luxon is a Sinophile. New Zealand’s Prime Minister drinks deep of The Kool Sino-Aid.
Immediately after visiting China, Luxon announced on 21 June 2025, “We haven't seen evidence of those four powers [China, Russia, Iran & North Korea] coordinating in a way, actively against the West”. Luxon was not speaking on behalf of anyone other than himself. The “We” was therefore a Royal We (even though Luxo aint no monarch).
When Luxon proclaimed No-Sino-Russo-Iran-NK coordination, he certainly wasn’t speaking on behalf of NATO secretary general and former Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte.
Because Rutte warned on 10 June 2025 that China is indeed closely aligned with Russia, Iran and North Korea. As this Substack is published, Luxo is meeting NATO, including Rutte.
It’s not clear whether New Zealand’s Prime Minister will repeat – to NATO - his personal revelation of No Evidence of Anti-West Coordination.
It’s also not clear what “evidence” Detective Inspector Luxon examined before his no-collusion conclusion. Did he, for example, take into account the three cargo Boeing 747s that China flew to Iran within the last fortnight. If so, did Luminary Luxon ruminate on what the planes’ cargo could possibly have been…bouquets of flowers for the Ayatollah’s long-suffering subjects? Did Luxon factor in that Iran sells 90% of its oil to China, on the cheap?
Sir Luxolot appears to have come to his own devine truth…by personal revelation and public declaration. If the great Knight of his Realm of Aotearoa says it’s true, it is!
But Luxo is far from alone in his Sinophilia (love of the Chinese Communist Party). Ex-Prime Minister Helen Clark is deeply dedicated to the promotion of the Chinese dictatorship.
So what’s going on here? Is Luxon simply saying silly things in his own vain essay to safeguard New Zealand’s trading relationships with China? Or are there deeper factors involved?
For starters Mr Luxon, China doesn’t care one iota about anything you say. The extent to which China buys New Zealand’s exports depends solely on whether the Chinese Communist Party thinks doing so is in the CCP’s best material interests.
Quite possibly, Luxon is an unthinking useful idiot of the Western “Liberal” Elite, feeding the Wokerati’s mad antipathy towards the West’s traditional freedoms and adherence to democracy. It’s an antipathy that illiberal regimes (China, Russia, all the Middle East except Israel) are relentlessly and successfully exploiting.
The long term arc of history may indeed bend towards justice (let’s hope so), but humanity’s current trend is towards authoritarian "strongman" leadership. The theory is that, in times of uncertainty or threat, populations tend to favour strong, decisive leadership – including leaders who are not outright antidemocratic authoritarians. Out go insipid managerial leaders such as Canada’s ousted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In come the likes of Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s Reform Party (currently at 35% popularity, according to the latest poll).
At some level, Luxon appears to fancy himself as a strongman world leader – “MussoLuxi” without the war mongering.
Luxolini was undeniably ecstatic on meeting Chinese dictator Xi Qing Ping.
But Luxon’s strongman aspirations have been doomed from the start. Strongman leadership is characterised by patriotism, populism, charisma and general appeal to the common people. Luxon abjectly fails on all those counts. Luxon is a globalist and certainly no New Zealand patriot or nativist. He appears at his happiest outside of New Zealand.
Luxon is an archetypal corporatist member of New Zealand’s managerial class. As with Jacinda Ardern, Luxon’s most fevered nightmares are of having to mix it up with New Zealand’s muscular, productive, real working people. And, to boot, he’s a charisma vacuum; an unprepossessing, uninspiring individual with a formulaic “paint by numbers” leadership style.
Commenting on the US doing the Free World a favour by destroying Iran’s nuclear bomb making facilities, Luxon ranged from the inane to the ridiculous:
“We want to see a peaceful, secure and stable Middle East” – and who in their right mind wouldn’t, Chris? (acknowledging that many Death Cult Middle Eastern Nations, Iran included, don’t want peace, security or stability).
“The way to get there is a political solution rather than military action ... it's through dialogue and diplomacy”/ “Let’s be clear, it’ll be very difficult, but you know, carrying on the way that things are is not the way through those issues” – Dear Chris…dialogue and diplomacy with Iran have been conscientiously tried and always failed, because Iran inevitably lies and reneges on its promises. It’s nigh on impossible to constructively negotiate with bad faith terrorist regimes like Iran. What’s the reason for the current ceasefire between Israel and Iran?…because the U.S. airpower obliterated Iran’s nuclear weapons projects and Airforce.
“New Zealand doesn't want to see a nuclear-armed Iran destabilising its neighbours”. Oh really, Christopher. Without nukes, Iran has been destabilising its neighbours and many other regions of the world, for decades. Armed with nuclear weapons, Iran wouldn’t (just) be “destabilising” Israel, it would in short order nuke Israel and its citizens out of existence. That’s what Iran has overtly committed to do, and there’s every reason to conclude that, with nukes, Iran’s Death Cult Mullahs would quickly execute their express commitment.
It’s increasingly excruciating and embarrassing listening to Luxon trying to play Great Stateman and International Peacemaker. All the apparent evidence is that we’re looking at a man who is not a complex thinker, serious politician, or man in full.
Luxon projects as normatively neutral as between the USA and China; between freedom and democracy, on the one hand, and authoritarianism on the other. His transactional mind perceives nothing inherently undesirable about the political totalitarianism of the Chinese Communist Party or, for that matter, the religious fundamentalism of Iran.
What exactly does Luxon offer as Prime Minister that Nicola Willis wouldn’t? Could Luxon be the National Party’s biggest liability in the lead-up to the next general election?
In his maiden speech to Parliament, Luxon praised an historical figure (speaking as if the long-dead Jewish carpenter were still alive), “[Jesus] doesn’t judge, discriminate or reject people. He loves unconditionally.”
Luxon should unshackle himself from his now-invisible carpenter friend and start indulging in judicious judging, discrimination and rejection. There could come a time, in Luxon’s short residual time as Prime Minister, when he’ll just have to cut his unconditional Christian love, make tough choices and take sides.
Where would Luxolini sit if, while he’s still at NZ’s helm, China tries to invade Taiwan? Because there are no fences to sit on in the Taiwan Strait and, unlike his Lord and Saviour, he won’t be able to walk on the water of that contested body of water.
John McLean is a citizen typist and enthusiastic amateur who blogs at John's Substack where this article was sourced.
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