but it certainly demonstrates that NZ puts trade and the economy above human rights and forced and child labor. Surprising.Have you forgotten that your own nation trades with, borrows from and rewards China above all others except Japan? NZ is 51st on China's list of trading partners meaning that 50 other nations are less "moral" by your formula including most of the OECD. ;-)
FWIW, NZ does have a long history of taking lonely moral stands, usually to its disadvantage. Example: banning of nuclear weapons in the 1980s started a chain of events that includes a trade deal signed with China but not with the USA. The good news is that Senator McCain (along with many others) supports the idea that the US should make deals with its friends, specifically NZ, even if they don't see eye to eye on everything. Bravo.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
