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Category : Opinion

Australian Senator Pauline Hanson has been labelled racist after storming out of the Senate during the opening acknowledgement of the country.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/07/australian-senator-pauline-hanson-storms-out-of-parliament-after-refusing-to-acknowledge-original-land-owners-of-canberra.html
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Category : News
Author: Laura Walters

Former Defence Minister Ron Mark has taken a specific interest in the Ukraine conflict. He speaks to Laura Walters about his second trip to the war-torn nation.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129342478/we-will-be-judged-in-the-long-run-says-former-defence-minister-ron-mark-on-how-nz-responds-to-ukraines-ordeal
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Category : News
Author: Q and A

Foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta has sounded the alarm about debt levels in Pacific countries, amid geopolitical tensions and the unrest sweeping through Sri Lanka.

Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/07/17/nanaia-mahuta-sounds-alarm-on-pacific-debt/
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Category : Analysis
Author: The Conversation

ANALYSIS: It's easy to understand New Zealand's motivation for securing a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU). 

What's less apparent is why the EU chose to pursue the agreement with a small and distant country, currently ranked its 50th most important trading partner.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/07/analysis-a-trade-deal-with-the-eu-makes-sense-for-new-zealand-but-there-s-a-lot-in-it-for-europe-too.html
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Category : News
Author: Emma Cropper

The Solomon Islands has backed down on plans to build a Chinese military base in the Pacific.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/07/solomon-islands-backs-down-on-plans-to-build-chinese-military-base-in-the-pacific.html
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To back down from having a military base one has to have had plans to have a Chinese base to be built in the first place... Just pointing that out because Solomon Islands PM was adamant that it was not even on the horizon... interesting.

I really wish news editors would stop with the fake news head lines... Solomon Islands has not backed down have not changed there tune. They have said all along there is no plan for a Chinese military base and that is what they are saying now.

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Category : Defence
Author: Robert Ayson
​In little more than a year an inside-out experiment at foreign policy making for New Zealand has been turned outside-in. Barely fifteen months ago Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta set out an agenda which began with the Treaty of Waitangi and sought to globalise indigenous values. But claims to New Zealand’s foreign policy uniqueness have been overtaken by events in Europe. Since Russia launched its devastating invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, Jacinda Ardern’s government has been focused on expressing New Zealand’s solidarity with its larger western partners.

Article: https://www.incline.org.nz/home/new-zealands-foreign-policy-turnaround
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Category : News
Author: Nick Cater

Jacinda Ardern was eight years old when the People’s Liberation Army rolled its tanks into Tiananmen Square, but this doesn’t excuse her speech to the Lowy Institute last week.

Article: https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/if-arderns-speech-on-china-was-genuine-were-in-trouble/news-story/25b863e432b90be08f473c50175356e2
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Category : Analysis
Author: Christine Rovoi

The United States says a major military exercise under way in the Pacific is not designed to counter or threaten China, but to defend Taiwan, the democratic island that Beijing considers a breakaway province.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/129248524/pacific-military-exercise-is-not-aimed-at-china-says-the-us
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 They say it isn't aimed at China.... but... we all know it is...

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