The crisis to come
Otago University’s prestigious annual Foreign Policy School over the weekend was all about President Trump even though his name was hardly mentioned.
Top of the...
Peters to tell the US we want respect
Foreign Minister Winston Peters is off to the United States within the next three weeks to press New Zealand's case for a free trade...
How Ron Mark persuaded the Greens to support our defence forces
The Government’s $20 billion Defence Capability Plan unveiled yesterday is the biggest Defence procurement programme ever seen in New Zealand, but it is ultimately...
Part of the way with the USA
National announced yesterday that it would aggressively pursue a free trade agreement with the United States and almost immediately got shot down by one...
Will Hawke cast a shadow over the Australian election
The death of Australia's charismatic former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, 89, raises the question as to whether his death will cast a shadow over...
Ardern in charge of China
The Prime Minister made it clear yesterday; that she runs foreign policy.
She had been asked by Fran O’Sullivan, the chair of the China...
Peters left on the side of the Belt and Road
The Government's support for China's Belt and Road initiative detailed last night in a TV interview with Trade Minister David Parker gives a hint...
The NZ diplomatic offensive against social media
There is much more to the Prime Minister’s trip to meet President Macron than meets the eye.
While her office is keen to emphasise that...
Why we are different to Australia- according to China
The Prime Minister’s trip last week to China appears to have achieved one of its key objectives.
An editorial in an official Chinese newspaper, in...
China: it's a matter of trust
The Prime Minister left Beijing last night with the relationship with China, if not restored to its previous heights, at least with the potential...
Ardern in China: the big test
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrived in Beijing early this morning (NZ time) for what is the most critical foreign trip she has done in...
Malaysia backs New Zealand
Foreign Minister Winston Peters yesterday got a top-level reception on his one day visit to Kuala Lumpur.
He told POLITIK last night that he had...
How the Government is calming things with China
Tensions in the relationship with China appeared to subside yesterday with the news that China’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Luo Shugang, would travel...
The elephant in the window
It wasn’t so much an elephant in the room as an elephant glaring in through the window.
When Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, had a...
After weekend negotiations, peace breaks out between Beijing and Wellington
Top Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade officers spent the weekend working on calming down the public face of the New Zealand China relationship.
Led...
