OUR NEW FOREIGN POLICY TOOL — TV PROGRAMMES
The Government hopes that its new Pacific TV service will help to counter growing super power rivalry in the region.
The Ambassador to the Pacific...
SUBTLE CHANGES TO US NAVY VISITS CRITERIA
Prime Minister John Key appears to have subtly changed the criteria which the Prime Ministers must use before they admit potentially nuclear armed naval...
WHAT IS THE SIS UP TO?
The Government’s intelligence agency inspector has revealed problems involving the Security Intelligence Service and its work in co-operation with other agencies.
The revelations are contained...
NZ ARMY OFFICERS TO TRAIN IN CHINA
New Zealand military personnel have begun training with their Chinese counterparts --- part of a growing relationship between the huge People’s Liberation Army and...
CABINET UNDER PRESSURE TODAY TO TAKE SYRIAN REFUGEES
Cabinet will discuss the Syrian refugee crisis today but it is by no means clear whether New Zealand will take any or if they...
NEW ZEALAND'S LOW KEY DIPLOMATIC TRIUMPH
It may be our most low key diplomatic triumph.
But as Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee heard yesterday New Zealand has already had a disproportionate...
THE RETURN OF THE DIPLOMATS
It’s one of the ironies of this Government that an administration which sought to purge the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and make...
NZ NEEDS CHINA AND THE US TO DO A DEAL
A top expert on the US- China relationship says New Zealand and Australia do not want to have to choose between the two countries.
Hugh...
KIWI SPOOK COMES IN FROM THE COLD
One of New Zealand’s top intelligence analysts came in from the cold over the weekend and debated intelligence policy with academics at the Otago...
NZ READY TO LEAD MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS
New Zealand takes up the Chair of the Security Council next week and Mr McCully is nothing if not ambitious for New Zealand’s term
It...
TPP GREEN LIGHT: NEGOTIATIONS COULD BE OVER IN TWO MONTHS
It looks like a green light at last for the Trans Pacific Partnership which could well be law by the end of the year.
Both...
OUR "UNSUITABLE" DEFENCE EQUIPMENT PROBLEMS
What is rapidly emerging as a major equipment crisis with our defence forces got another unveiling at the Foreign Affairs and Defence Select Committee...
NZ ANTARCTIC FLIGHTS ON ICE
New Zealand may now have to largely rely on the United States for transport to Antarctica.
Tough new safety requirements imposed on our air force...
END OF EMPIRE — WHY GROSER BELIEVES BEIJING MAY END UP THE WINNER IF...
New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser believes an ultimate rejection by the United States of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) could provoke a substantial...
DESPITE WASHINGTON SETBACK STILL HOPE FOR TPP
By Krista Hughes and Richard CowanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A raging battle over President Barack Obama's request for "fast-track" authority central to improving U.S. ties...
