Judith Collins – diplomat
What amounts to the forced departure of National MP Michael Woodhouse raises a big question about the next government and Parliament. Who would be the...
Who is driving our defence policy
Former Prime Minister Helen Clark is suggesting that Defence Minister Andrew Little has been railroaded by hawkish officials in either or both the Ministry...
A month of ambiguities
For the past four and half weeks, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister have undertaken one of the most intensive periods of meetings...
ANZAC has its limits
It would seem the spirit of ANZAC goes only so far. Though Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese talked up the...
The big names are in town
It is a heavyweight foreign affairs week for the Prime Minister, with the arrival today of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and then the...
Diplomatic high noon
In a way, it was a diplomatic high noon; first, the Prime Minister, then an hour later, the Chinese Ambassador, both reviewing Chris Hipkins’...
Maybe it’s who you know if you want to join the CPTPP
Next stop America. That is likely to be the goal of New Zealand's trade negotiators after yesterday's celebration of the accession of Britain to the...
What China really thinks of NZ
When he was asked last week what it was like to receive a formal welcome with a brass band and Peoples Liberation Army guard...
Hipkins bitter sweet day in Beijing
Just when Prime Minister Chris Hipkins might have thought he could relax and bask in the success of his China trip, once again, an...
China’s “incredibly important” friend and partner
China's President Xi Jinping was almost effusive in his opening words with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins in Beijing late yesterday afternoon. In contrast, in 2019,...
Hipkins big test
Beijing is any New Zealand Prime Minister’s biggest diplomatic test. There they must balance the country’s economic future against New Zealand’s day-to-day engagement with old...
Hipkins gets warm welcome in Beijing
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and his 85-strong travelling party arrived in Beijing early this morning for his five days visit to the city and...
The General is back
For those with long memories, the declaration in Wellington yesterday by the Prime Minister of Fiji that economic development in Pacific Island states depended...
The Commonwealth, cricket and curry
The facts are bald and simple; India is now the most populous country in the world and the fifth largest economy and is on...
Yoga diplomacy
Thirty-six years ago, almost to the day, after he launched Fiji's first military coup in 1987, the now-elected Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, yesterday awarded...
