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Brigadier
Perhaps he wants to build more links with China by learning Chinese, and so he learnt Cantonese thinking that was the main language of China. You know, you go to Chinatown, hear Cantonese, you think Cantonese is spoken by every Chinese...
Or maybe he wants to spite China, so he's going to very quickly make a speech in New Zealand parliament, in Cantonese of course, about how great Joshua Wong is...
He would have known that is not true by the middle of his courtship.