The anti-China narrative is an easy story to tell, but, as Stephen Jacobi cautioned, it may, however, "unintentionally tap into a prejudice against Chinese people which has raised its head several times in our history, including in the form of a poll tax once applied to Chinese immigrants". Many Kiwi-Chinese people have made New Zealand their whānau. They're not even interested in geopolitics. So please leave them alone. To protect them from the sweeping generalisation, I have deliberately skipped all the Chinese names—as you can tell from the gallery, none of them were invited. But I do want to thank them, thank my family, thank my team, and thank the Chinese community, and especially those business leaders who over the last four terms have given—using their own words—their party votes to Labour "against their conscience". 