As Colin James reminded us all earlier in the week, the consequences of this financial crisis is about more than money. These consequences include a substantial re-alignment of global power away from the US and Europe to Asia, specifically to Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea - the economies where people save.
So reading stories like this in today's NZ Herald make us really angry. And again we are angry with Helen Clark for allowing this person to maintain a Ministerial salary, staff and transport privileges while he damages our reputation as an Asian friendly nation by overt racism.