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China Business Summit 2012 By Brierley Penn “The debacle over the Crafar Farms must never happen again,” said David Mahon, of Mahon China Investment Management, who claimed it made New Zealand appear on the international stage as a, “small and bigoted country”. The sentiment appeared to be shared amongst the great majority of political and business leaders at the 2012 …

Fran O'Sullivan sits down with Shanghai Pengxin Chief Executive, Jian Lei as he speaks about the ongoing Crafar Farms saga as well as his company's future investment plans in New Zealand. More to come

The Court of Appeal emphatically threw out the Sir Michael Fay-led challenge to Shanghai Pengxin”s bid for the 16 Crafar farms and with it, hopefully, one of the most xenophobically charged episodes of commercial behaviour in New Zealand. Lest I be accused of “triumphalism”, let me just say that the court”s robust decision restores much-needed clarity to New Zealand”s foreign …

The Court of Appeal emphatically threw out the Sir Michael Fay-led challenge to Shanghai Pengxin's bid for the 16 Crafar farms and with it, hopefully, one of the most xenophobically charged episodes of commercial behaviour in New Zealand.

It was hard to suppress the image of a black-singleted John Clarke singing, “If it weren’t for your gumboots, where would ya be?” when I took part in a Federated Farmers debate on foreign ownership. The proposition that “if foreigners want to own dairy farms in New Zealand, they should put on their gumboots and come and live here”, got …