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Author: Amelia Wade

Despite escalating tensions in the Pacific, China's Ambassador says its relationship with New Zealand is going well.

Chinese Ambassador Wang Xiaolong told Newshub both countries prided themselves on having independent foreign policies.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand.html
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Author: Damien Venuto

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's tour of the US was met with standing ovations, celebrity interviews and strong diplomacy.

This positive reaction was far removed from the local politician who has been struggling in the polls and dealing with economic pressure at home.

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/the-front-page-is-criticism-of-pms-us-trip-fair-or-just-tall-poppy-syndrome/
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Author: Tess McClure

Foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta accepts China has become more assertive in the region but says approach will remain essentially unchanged

New Zealand’s foreign minister has defended herself against accusations of complacency in the wake of China’s dramatic push for greater influence in the Pacific region, saying New Zealand does “not need to be reactive to any other agenda from any other country”.

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Article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/we-dont-need-to-be-reactive-new-zealand-keeps-faith-in-its-foreign-policy-amid-china-pacific-push
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Author: Jamie Ensor

The Prime Minister has defended Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta amid criticism she has been absent in the portfolio by not travelling to the Pacific like her Australian and Chinese counterparts recently have.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/06/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-frustrated-by-criticism-over-nanaia-mahuta-s-absence-from-pacific.html
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Author: Reuters

Ukraine will fight to recover all its territory occupied by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday (local time), as his troops battled street-to-street in Sievierodonetsk in one of the bloodiest land battles of the war.

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Russia took aim on Sunday at Western military supplies for Ukraine, launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated from abroad, as Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of long-range rocket systems would prompt Moscow to hit “objects that we haven’t yet struck.”

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/06/06/russia-hits-kyiv-with-missiles-putin-warns-west-on-arms/
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The federal government says it will not be intimidated by the dangerous actions of a Chinese aircraft towards an Australian surveillance plane in the South China Sea last month.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/468560/australia-government-says-it-won-t-be-deterred-by-chinese-intimidation-tactics-in-south-china-sea
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A contingent from the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and its taua, or warrior party, wowed crowds as it took part in celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in London.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/06/06/big-roar-in-london-as-nzdf-wows-at-jubilee-celebrations/
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