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The Foreign Affairs Minister says she wouldn't be surprised by reports her Chinese counterpart is planning a formal trip to the Solomon Islands and has expressed her own interest in travelling the Pacific.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/nanaia-mahuta-expresses-interest-in-travelling-to-pacific-as-reports-suggest-chinese-foreign-minister-heading-to-solomon-islands.html
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ACT's 'alternative budget' has been released and it includes a proposal to bump up defence spending by $7.5 billion over four years.
"China now has a foothold in the Pacific. Labour agrees that the world is changing but they don't know what to do and they're too busy wasting money on poorly targeted spending," ACT MP James McDowell said on Monday.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/act-s-alternative-budget-bump-up-defence-spending-by-7bn-to-counter-china-s-foothold-in-the-pacific.html
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The announcement by the Solomon Islands government that it intends to ‘broaden its security and development cooperation with more countries’ has provoked a rash of commentary from Australian and New Zealand journalists, academics, think-tankers and politicians. Amid the calls to ‘amass an amphibious invasion force’ or offer the Solomons an Australian naval base, is there potential for a ‘Pacific family’ solution?
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- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-and-new-zealand-can-make-solomon-islands-a-pacific-family-offer-china-cant-match/
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White House security co-ordinator Kurt Campbell says the large response by countries in Asia to Ukraine is based on a desire to make sure such an invasion is not replicated by any other country in the region.
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Read more: US security expert thanks Jacinda Ardern for 'understanding the moment'
- Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/us-security-expert-thanks-jacinda-ardern-for-understanding-the-moment/KANF2TGSQ6B5BFSC574GLVHOW4/
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Winston Peters thinks the move to trespass him from Parliament is "unlawful, unreasonable and it cannot stand".
The former Deputy Prime Minister was slapped with a trespass notice from the Beehive for two years after an order from House Speaker Trevor Mallard. It came after Peters attended the 23-day anti-mandate protests on Parliament's grounds earlier this year.
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Analysis: It’s fast approaching that point in the election cycle where MPs decide whether they have another campaign in them. Some in the Labour Party have already made their minds up, writes political editor Jo Moir.
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Read more: Political future about to come clearer for Labour MPs
- Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/political-future-about-to-come-clearer-for-labour-mps
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The Government has added 170 Russian politicians and six defence sector companies to its sanctions list, as “Putin’s war machine” continues its invasion of Ukraine.
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- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/128517936/government-sanctions-170-russian-politicians-as-putins-war-machine-continues-ukraine-invasion
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ANALYSIS: Amid the great struggle for power in the Indo-Pacific, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has reaffirmed what New Zealand thinks the United States needs to be. Not a greater security partner in a region that’s experiencing "assertiveness and aggression”, but a better economic one.
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- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/128511631/pm-jacinda-arderns-message-to-president-joe-biden-before-us-trip-get-on-board-with-free-trade
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If these bigger countries want other countries to stop trading or at least majorly cut back on trading with China then they need to step up and fill the gap as fall back. New Zealand has been trying to get a deal with the US for years and has also warned about a possible fall out with China. But if the US doesn't step up then what does one expect?
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