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Author: B K Greener
In an era of multiple ‘world orders’ we need to embrace the grey in global politics. The nuances involved in the recent stoush over Winston Peters’ discussion about learning from Taiwan’s COVID-19 response, and a rise in COVID-related racism at home both underscore that there is a pressing need to not view the world in black and white, good and bad. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) isn’t automatically always ‘bad’. The United States of America (US) isn’t automatically always ‘good’. 
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Article: http://www.incline.org.nz/home/dealing-in-shades-of-grey-in-global-politics
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Author: Robert Ayson
Fresh from a thumping general election victory and an anti-climactic Commons vote confirming the U.K.'s departure from the European Union, Boris Johnson's Government is struggling to make up its mind about Huawei.
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Article: http://www.incline.org.nz/home/new-zealands-useful-huawei-ambiguity
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Category: Defence
Author: Anneke Smith

The Defence Force has pleaded guilty to a charge laid over the death of a sailor after a diving training exercise.

Zachary Yarwood died in hospital after a night-time dive at the Devonport Naval Base in March last year.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/421657/defence-force-pleads-guilty-over-death-of-sailor-at-devonport-naval-base
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Author: Brianna Mcilraith

The crew of New Zealand’s newest and biggest Navy ship will soon be cracking open a cold one – and it will have been created for them in Taranaki.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/122122835/taranaki-brewery-creates-all-new-zealand-beer-for-commissioning-of-navys-newest-ship
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Author: Mike Mather, Andre Chumko, Josephine Franks and Caroline Williams

Four of the five people who allegedly absconded from managed isolation in Hamilton have been charged with breaching the coronavirus Health Act notice.

A 37-year-old woman and three young people will appear before the district court and youth court in Hamilton on Saturday, police said.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/122247176/police-charge-four-people-who-allegedly-escaped-covid19-isolation-in-hamilton
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Author: The Conversation

OPINION: News that the "bad boys of Brexit" have been hired by New Zealand First to work on the party's social media strategy is simultaneously amusing and ominous.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/07/new-zealand-must-help-build-new-global-political-group-as-us-uk-no-longer-reliable-expert.html
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Author: Vita Molyneux

A Māori woman says a Christchurch landlord told her he didn't want "her sort" renting his property.

Iwi Kemp had applied for 10 rentals but had no luck - after a friend joked it could be because of her name, Kemp reapplied under the name Maria, NZME reported. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/07/m-ori-woman-says-christchurch-landlord-told-her-he-didn-t-want-her-sort-in-his-house.html
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Author: Zane Small

The Chinese Embassy has lashed out at a Kiwi professor who suspects foul play over a fatal crash involving Chinese activists travelling to Wellington to protest the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/07/chinese-embassy-lashes-out-at-anne-marie-brady-over-communist-party-interference-allegations.html
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