We have just heard about China's social credit system where bad behaviour drops your score.

Fraud, fair enough, drops your score, I get that but smoking in non-smoking areas that's one of the measures as well that drops your social credit score.

Buying booze and video games at the supermarket, I don't like it - I like the booze bit but not the videos games, but that drops your score too.

And if you don't get a certain level of score you can't send your kids to top universities, you can't travel, you become essentially a non-person.

Now China is kind of like our rich mate. New Zealand has closer ties with China economically.

Our two-way trade system has more than tripled in the last decade, $26.1 billion in the last calendar year and we're the ones making the money, not China we are getting more from that and that's a lot of milk powder.

But China's not like other countries, it's a dictatorship. Sure there is a lot of capitalism but there's also a lot of state control.

Now just recently the Chinese Government started a massive persecution of Christians, destroying 7000 crosses, burning bibles, arresting church members and seizing churches.

You may or may not believe in Christianity but I would hope that you would see that the right to believe what you want is a fundamental part of being a functioning human being.

This new social control measure is the least of China's foulness. China's not like us, you see, it's a filthy and toxic regime that wants to be the dominant superpower.

They're spending money in the South Pacific like a drunken sailor on the last night of shore leave. They want to win and they don't like being disagreed with.

Here's another fun fact about China, there are suspicious they are behind a spate of burglaries of University of Canterbury professor Anne-Marie Brady. She believes the burglaries in her home and office are because she has been exposing the level of Chinese influence here.

So what's our Government doing in terms of China? What's our response to China?

Well, fortunately, it's taking a harder line over human rights, that's great but how much are we willing to trade the free trade, the money, the dough for the freedoms of others and possibly our own freedoms.

And how much should we be cosying up to our old ally the US given all that we know about China?

you see if a red plane lands here and someone in a communist uniform and hops off and says, "guess what, you're all slaves" you know who is going to help us out, we hope? It's the US bear that in mind.

So let's sell them stuff but let's also make sure we know what they are, a one-party crime regime.