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Vincent Heeringa on Chinese businesses targeting the New Zealand food industry for takeover.

Jayson Bryant from Wine Vault TV brings in a New Zealand and Aussie blended Pinot Noir and we name Richard Prebble as the dick of the week.

Does the Green Party co-leader run the risk of being labeled the anti-Chinese politician? We discuss the Crafer Farm sale, boat people and John Key’s Chinese regret.

The Prime Minister is looking at trading a few Kiwi for a couple of Chinese Giant Pandas. How many Kiwi’s for a Panda though?

Russell muses over the farce that was the gang patch protest in Wanganui yesterday, he also gives his verdict on a couple of controversial documentaries screened on Maori TV and he gives Apple’s Snow Leopard a spin. Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net.

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About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937. Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow and Michelle Yeoh. John Henderson gives his thoughts on this new flick.

Listen/Download John Henderson on Children of the Silk Road

In the most political week of the year Joe mulls over the state of the American Empire and the dawning of a new dominant economic force in the East. And he’s got a new book out called Laugh? I could have Cried. His most memorable thoughts on dogs, games, language, travel, the idiocy of belief, and the swamping trivia that shape our lives despite our best intentions.

Listen/Download Joe Bennett on Empire Building