Who owns Fonterra in New Zealand?
Who owns Fonterra in New Zealand?
New Zealand farmers
Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited (/ˈfɒntɛrə/) is a New Zealand multinational publicly traded dairy co-operative owned by around 10,500 New Zealand farmers….Fonterra.
| Type | Publicly listed cooperative |
|---|---|
| Net income | NZ$$0.745 billion (2016–17) |
| Total assets | NZ$17.842 billion (2016–17) |
| Total equity | NZ$7.248 billion (2016–17) |
Is the Five Eyes alliance in trouble?
Now, six months later, New Zealand’s departure from the party line on China has meant that the Five Eyes’ newly expanded role appears to have ground to a halt, prompting some to question whether the alliance is in trouble. But that would be an exaggeration. This was about politics, not intelligence.
Can China’s sovereignty be threatened by five or 10 eyes?
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman responded that if countries “dared harm China’s sovereignty, they should beware that their eyes could be blinded”. “The Chinese never stir trouble , but they aren’t afraid of trouble either,” Zhao Lijian told journalists in Beijing on Thursday, saying it did not “matter if they had five or 10 eyes”.
Why is New Zealand leaving the Five Eyes alliance?
New Zealand is not leaving the alliance, it is only drawing a distinction between the two. In retrospect it was an overstretch of what Five Eyes was meant for: sharing secrets. There will almost certainly be some in New Zealand’s intelligence community who feel embarrassment at this playing out so publicly.
Is China trying to silence critics in Hong Kong?
China has strongly rebuked the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada after being accused of a concerted effort to silence critics in Hong Kong. The countries, which form the Five Eyes alliance, criticised China’s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong.