Good luck courting new tech talent when existing tech talent gets hung out to dry at the first hint of pressure.
See Kim Dotcom's troubles for reference.
See Kim Dotcom's troubles for reference.
You also forgot the part where Kim Dotcom is a convicted fraudster, who was making money through deliberate violation of copyright, is all tech talent like him?
Oh, and then there was the time he tried to get involved in NZ politics. That was not superpopular.
Violating copyright is not a crime in NZ, neither is it when former felons do it.
The NZ government still refuses to let US warships that may be nuclear powered into our ports, and thus has no free trade deal with the worlds largest economy. Instead we have a free trade deal with Red China, which is now colonising us.
I don't think you can squarely point to the New Zealand–China FTA for whichever interpretation of colonization you'd like – immigration laws were mostly unchanged by the FTA with the exception of short term work visas, and property purchases by Chinese investors is not an exclusively "countries who have negotiated free trade agreements with China" phenomenon (see Vancouver in Canada, Seattle in the US).
come now