Jacinda Ardern gets ’lavish praise’ for speaking ’nonsense’

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern “talks so much nonsense so consistently” and “gets such lavish, wonderful praise for it”, says The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan. This comes after Ms Ardern said Pacific nations should not be forced to “pick sides” amid growing concerns about the rise of China in the region. “We’re trying to give the Pacific an alternative from being conscripted into debt traps and hegemony by the most ruthless, authoritarian dictatorship in the world,“ Mr Sheridan told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “And she says ‘don’t cast this struggle as one between authoritarianism and democracy’ – she might as well say ‘don’t describe the sky as blue and the trees as green’.”