THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views
The Guardian (UK)
May 3, 2003

New Zealand Warns on 'Law of the Jungle'

by Charlotte Denny and Jonathan Freedland

One of Tony Blair's closest foreign political allies [prime minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark] has warned Britain and America that they may live to regret unleashing the "law of the jungle" in international relations when China becomes the dominant world power later this century. . . .

"We saw the UN as a fresh start for a world trying to work out its problems together rather than a return to a 19th [century] world where the great powers carved it up ... Who wants to go back to the jungle?"

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