I've lost count of every 'centrist' commentator who responded to researchers predicting the likelihood of global connections like this (and its impact on NZ) by gaslighting and undermining the people and organisations doing that work.

New Zealand has to be done with giving airtime to snivelling RNZ panel contrarians who sleep with their old Parliament lanyards under their pillow and do nothing but street sweep for the authoritarian right in between chummy replies to their dwindling pet leftists.