Carl Worker
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Retired NZ diplomat. Former Ambassador to China, CT Amb, Amb to Argentina, C-G in Hong Kong, and Chargé in Washington DC. Auckland small business owner.
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@KentArgentina
Muchas gracias, querido Mark. Estoy encantado de estar nuevamente en Argentina como Embajador por segunda vez. Tambien asistí al colegio primario en Provincia de Bs As. Más importante aún, mi mujer es Argentina y nuestros hijos 50/50. Un verdadero placer volver!
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“The US president pointed to the country’s high unemployment and ageing workforce, saying: “China is in trouble.”
“They have got some problems. That’s not good, because when bad folks have problems, they do bad things,” Biden said at a political fundraiser in Utah on Thursday.”…
China a ‘ticking time bomb’ because of economic woes, Joe Biden warns
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@ambmarkgilbert
Mark, I would be delighted if you can give us a good reason not to be concerned by these comments. What was the context that you believe rendered them acceptable?
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Lunatics.
While providing Taiwan with nuclear weapons may not be practical, including Taiwan under the U.S. nuclear umbrella is a feasible alternative.
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Ongoing celebrations by the Argentine community of Waiheke Island!
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What this totally misses is that the last thing the Chinese want to have to do is take really aggressive action against Taiwan and would only do so as a last resort if backed into a corner, which is within the power of Taiwan itself and the West to avert. Fundamental misreading.…
This is I think the clearest, best short statement on the military peril we face in the Pacific, specifically Taiwan. It is cogently stated, and rigorously backed by links.
Must read for anyone who wants to understand what we really face against China.
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“Mahbubani: The U.S. is courting India ferociously. Paradoxically, the best comparison to make of this courtship is with the ferocious courtship of China by the U.S. to counterbalance the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Today, to counterbalance China, the U.S. is courting India. This…
"if Xi Jinping decides not to participate, it will sadly diminish the significance of the
#G20Summit
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NEW
@connor_echols
Q&A w/
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The US Ambassador in Tokyo is continuing to break diplomatic protocol in a very crass and swaggering way. Another star from the Pompeo school of diplomacy.
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@Dr_M_Davis
You would benefit from a longer term perspective. The Chinese people already have been successful in changing their system of government twice in the last 120 years.
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This is the problem when journalists based in Taiwan try to make sense of China developments. Everything ends up being about Taiwan!
Kiwi PM
@chrishipkins
got rave reviews from Xi Jinping and the NZ business leaders who travelled with him to China.
But some officials in Taiwan told me they are concerned about the 🇳🇿🇨🇳 joint statement:
“Few advanced countries would use such wording.”
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Complete misreading. China engages in courteous and respectful diplomacy with US, making its continuing serious concerns very clear, and the act of diplomatic engagement is read in a self congratulatory and triumphalist way as a capitulation due to weakness. Amazing and very…
Good assessment -- China may be coming to terms with Indo-Pacific realities. Still, more defense and a trade stragegy needed from US.
China Accepts the New Indo-Pacific Reality by
@wrmead
via
@WSJopinion
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There would be some raised eyebrows in various parts of Asia over the proposition that this group could claim to be “the voice of our region”.
Australia has been invited to the NATO Summit along with our partners from Japan, South Korea and New Zealand, because our region is increasingly important to global stability and trade.
We’re bringing the voice of our region to the world stage.
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The South China Sea seems an odd topic to prioritise between NZ and Poland!
The Foreign Minister has held talks with his Polish counterpart, Radosław Sikorski, in Warsaw.
They discussed:
-enhancing 🇳🇿/🇵🇱, incl in economic & people-to-people spheres;
-the war in Ukraine;
-Gaza; and
-Indo-Pacific security challenges, including in the South China Sea
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'Appalling': Retired New Zealand surgeon who operated on children, babies in Gaza says what young people there are facing is 'outright cruelty'.
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The real story here is that China in just a handful of decades has pulled itself up from economic basket case to close to high income status.
China still can't quite make it to "high income" country status. To get there, the World Bank calculates a country's people need to have an average income of $13,846. China in 2023 reached $12,597.
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Sad to see someone descended from one of the great peoples of Asia so harsh and vitriolic about another great Asian country.
Joe Biden has failed to keep Americans safe from Communist China. If we rally now, the CCP will end up on the ash-heap of history...
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This bloke was a one-time Head of Mission in a friendly Commonwealth country after a long military career but thinks he knows far better than a very senior and experienced professional diplomat about the very complex bilateral relationship that she is responsible for. This kind…
As a former Canadian Head of Mission I find this statement both disingenuous and dishonest. The CCP is 100% an adversary to Canada and all free democracies, and the Ambassador knows it.
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Even as New Zealand battles Covid, trust in government bucks global trend | New Zealand | The Guardian
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“Slowly but inexorably, the US has modified its position on Taiwan. It once committed not to challenge the concept that Taiwan is part of China, but that was before China became a peer rival, one aiming to replace American global hegemony. Today, even a peaceful reunification…
Elections in Taiwan are a week from now. Here is my report from a long visit to the island
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@Dr_M_Davis
With respect, not sure what you can see and cannot see is the key to how the future might unfold. The point is that governments and systems of government have changed in China, no doubt will do so in future (maybe in currently unforeseeable ways), and it is for the Chinese people…
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Helen Clark on 20 years since Iraq war and why New Zealand didn’t join.
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@primroseriordan
Not good, but if the percentage of women was the same as the percentage of women among chief executives of large US companies (8% in 2023), there would only be one or at most two women in the picture. It is a problem, but is it a US problem or a Chinese problem?…
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Looking forward to taking up my new appointment in Buenos Aires from 15 Jan.
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Unanimity between New Zealand PM and Opposition Leader that casual inflammatory talk about worst case risks regarding Taiwan is neither appropriate nor helpful.
@AndyBxxx
Here’s the clip of the answer to that harebrained question on China & Taiwan in the
#TVNZdebate
#nzpol
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This all has a slightly hysterical edge to it.
🚨China continues its barrage of balloons violating Taiwan’s territorial airspace.
The direct overflights—a significant escalation—could be considered a “first strike.”
What's happening & why it matters 🧵
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Powerful speech by Malaysian PM and thoughtful commentary by former Aus FM Gareth Evans calling for “a new detente” between the US and China.
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“Anyone looking at American politics from a foresight, strategy, or trends perspective needs to see clearly what’s going on—the American right has lost moorings to reality, actively wants to create the conditions that facilitate a war with China, and has every intention of making…
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Looks like a pretty clear Chinese message to Milei.
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Mi casa en Nueva Zelandia esta cerca de Auckland en la bellísima isla de Waiheke donde viven muchos Argentinos, algunos hace años y muchos con el Programa de Vacaciones y Trabajo.
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Unfortunately and disturbingly, it would be understandable if the Chinese were concerned that evolving western policy could back them into a corner from which they would have no choice but to try and fight their way out. Everyone should be working to avert the risks around this…
Very disturbing about Taiwan.
As for you, do you dispute the empirical findings of US intelligence? If not, why are they building and exercising this awing military for precisely such an operation?
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“The more hawkish Wellington becomes, the greater the risk of reprisals from Beijing.
None of the options would give New Zealand the elusive free trade agreement with the United States – or comprehensive market access elsewhere – that would offer New Zealand any kind of realistic…
'Aukus or not, New Zealand’s foreign policy is being remade'
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Reckless dopes.
Big news: the UK parliament for the first time refers to Taiwan as an "independent country," saying it "possesses all the qualifications for statehood." Fascinating to watch both for Beijing's response, but also for who in the British business and political community publicly or…
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Thoughtful Indian think tank analysis of US economic strategy against China.
“In actual practice, however, the US chip ban is not targeting just military applications, but seeking to restrain China’s development as an economic power, and some have actually likened it to “an act…
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During the Xi era, influenced by experience/observation inter alia of the GFC, the Pivot, Diaoyu/Senkaku, various colour revolutions, Taiwan and Hong Kong developments, and trade and technology sanctions, China has seen a possible major storm ahead caused by a mixture of western…
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“At the moment, China-New Zealand relations have maintained a healthy and steady development with joint efforts, bringing tremendous benefits to the two countries, particularly our two peoples. This hard-won situation deserves to be held dear and well-nurtured continuously. China…
Statement of the Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in New Zealand
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Chinese core message to Australia ahead of Wang Yi visit.
China and Australia can leverage their strengths through their joint efforts to build a more prosperous and secure future for the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
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Either glibly disingenuous or casually dismissive of Asian (not just Chinese) cultural norms.
Antony Blinken: "As a practical matter, those sanctions don’t prevent the minister from engaging or us engaging with him, so there’s no practical impediment. It is a political decision, in effect, for China to decide whether or not he should be engaged."
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NZ foreign policy hijacked by a party representing only 6% of the electorate?
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@IanDuddyUK
@uklatinamerica
@IntRioNegro
@elpaisuy
@ObservadorUY
@RuralesElPaisUy
@610Rural
@pugliainvita
@RadioSarandi690
@BBCFood
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@Tesco
Y también en los supermercados de Nueva Zelandia!
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Honoured to renew acquaintance with one of the outstanding statesmen of the contemporary international scene, External Affairs Minister of India, Dr S. Jaishankar.
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Promoting the building of knowledge and understanding of China to develop national capability to better manage dealings with the world’s second power should be a top priority for all western governments. Instead, most are promoting alarm and paranoia about China that makes it…
300k Chinese students in the US and 350 American students in China. US has to overcome an enormous knowledge disadvantage. That’s the point. The why is irrelevant.
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Clown show.
Chairman
@RepGallagher
’s strategy for hard power deterrence of Beijing and America’s adversaries around the world…👇
“Deterrence by diplomatic scolding doesn’t work.
Deterrence by economic punishment doesn’t work.
You need the capability to deny your adversary their…
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“As I see it, there are two paths. We could embrace our Pacific identity and address the root causes of regional instability by making a credible contribution to climate action, development and disarmament. Or we could fall the way of Australia, which has retreated into the…
Winston Peters’ contradictory foreign policy balances AUKUS “traditional partners” with our Pacific family, nationalism with regionalism, and populism with diplomacy.
Can Peters reconcile this? Could he deliver another Pacific Reset?
w/
@teuilafuatai
🌺
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Very grateful for all the good wishes! Much looking forward to the chance to work again on promoting New Zealand’s relations with Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, which have blossomed since last based in Buenos Aires some 13 years ago, with still plenty of upside potential.
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As Chargé d’Affaires a.i., accompanying Prime Minister Jim Bolger during meeting with President Jiang Zemin, Beijing, May 1993.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all, from Palm Beach, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand!
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With Kiwis just arrived in BA overland from Viedma and Rio Cuarto to join the Australian Government-organised 25 Apr repatriation flight to Melbourne and onwards to Auckland. 27 NZ-bound. Big thanks to Aussie cousins and mates. True Anzac spirit!
@EmbAustraliaBA
@NZinBuenosAires
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Invaluable endorsement of a bipartisan New Zealand approach to China by the Leader of the Opposition. Bipartisanship - and therefore reliability and continuity - has been a vital factor in the successful development of NZ ties with China.
Luxon calls Hipkins' work in China 'pretty good' in rare public praise
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Super tacky.
There's nothing quite as classy BBC, as using the obituary of a respected statesman to have a snide dig at Xi Jinping.
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@DrewPavlou
You are a cheap publicity seeker and clown. You are so self-adoring, unpleasant and shallow that you will never have any influence with anyone with actual power and influence.
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Women leaders at APEC 2018 in Papua New Guinea: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam, and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde
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Honoured to join 17 Ambassadorial colleagues in presenting credentials to the President of Argentina, H.E. Alberto Fernández, at the Casa Rosada, 2 Mar 21
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“AUKUS is a China containment strategy”, (Helen Clark) said.”
Anzus alliance - are we still in it or suspended or something in between?
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An honour for the BA Embassy to help another group of Kiwis and NZ residents head home on the Argentine Government Aerolíneas Argentinas charter flight taking off for Auckland in a few hours to pick up 200 stranded Argentines. Warm thanks, Argentina, and Aerolíneas Argentinas!
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Very sensible, knowledgeable and experienced senior NZ foreign affairs leader. Dealt with predictably provocative line of questioning about China with aplomb.
Incoming Govt says no 'deep and immediate' concern about China's influence in Pacific region
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@ElbridgeColby
The Taiwanese evidently don’t share your assessment of massive risk of imminent Chinese aggressive action. They have much more at stake than you and know China much better. Worth a ponder?
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RIP former PRC Premier Li Keqiang. His Nov 2009 visit to NZ as Vice Premier gave an important push to promoting the potential of the 2008 NZ-China FTA. As Premier from 2013, always very welcoming to PM John Key during his regular visits to China, and to PM Jacinda Ardern in 2019.
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@NuryVittachi
The origin of kiwi fruit is very well known and appreciated and respected in NZ (when older folk like me grew up, it was called Chinese Gooseberry). In the other direction, the Chinese are very appreciative and respectful of the great work NZ has done in selective breeding and…
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He tangata, he tangata, he tangata. An honour to help 27 Kiwis head home on Anzac Day via the Australian Government Qantas special flight from Buenos Aires.
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Honoured to present working copies of Letters of Credence and Recall to the Argentine Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Pablo Anselmo Tettamanti, 16 Jan 20
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Super tacky, bad taste. No class.
Henry Kissinger is dead at 100. Kissinger's obituaries will be mostly about his opening of China, his crimes in Vietnam, Laos, and India, and his wit. But Kissinger was also an agent of Chinese influence, and, for the last forty years of his life, a businessman masquerading as a…
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Was going through my old photos and found this one of then PM John Key farewelling then Vice President Xi Jinping after their meeting during Xi’s visit to NZ in June 2010. Current NZ Ambassador to China Grahame Morton is standing at far left.
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New Zealand Ambassador to China Clare Fearnley and former Ambassadors to China Michael Powles (1990-93) and Carl Worker (2009-15).
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“However, minilateral groupings in the Indo-Pacific, such as AUKUS, are ceasing to serve as building blocks of peace and stability, unlike ASEAN. Contrary to the role and purpose of regional architecture, they are becoming a tool of containment and division. Close-ended…
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Merry Christmas from Palm Beach, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand!
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Super creepy.
It would be profoundly irresponsible for the US not be prepared to do just that.
Taiwanese need to understand that things will not just continue as they are if Taiwan falls to the PRC.
It’s a very tough situation but that’s the reality. You’re not New Zealand.
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For all its well earned reputation and eminence in so many areas, there is an element of Japanese/Brit propaganda rag about the FT these days.
The FT should have disclosed that ASPI's report on Chinese propaganda was funded by the US State Department's own propaganda arm, the "Global Engagement Center." Could anyone seriously argue that this fact is irrelevant for readers to assess credibility?
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Useful that TVNZ has sent someone to learn about Taiwan with Asia NZ assistance, but weird and eccentric that her reporting from Taiwan is 1News’ continuing main source of coverage of the Chinese ruling party’s five yearly congress currently underway in Beijing.
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Hace algunos años, mi mujer Connie Aldao y yo tuvimos el placer de mostrarle a Iván de Pineda una parte de nuestra vida en la isla de Waiheke. Connie, quien trabajó muchos años con Francis Mallmann, estaba como jefe de cocina en la distinguida bodega de Stonyridge.
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A great honour to lunch with Argentina’s leading wine maker and exporter of quality wines, Nicolas Catena, and Elena Maza de Catena, great friends of many years, 18 Jan 20
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@vshih2
@PeterHarrisCSU
Only to political scientists. To normal mortals, it comes across as pejorative.
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Sad to farewell Mexican colleagues and friends Consul-General Damián Martínez Tagüeña and Diana Coronado Peña, but delighted Damián will lead the office of the new head of the Mexican Foreign Ministry, Undersecretary Julián Ventura, my outstanding former colleague in Beijing.
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@EvanFeigenbaum
He made more than one statement. On the key one of US motivation, important not to miss the wood for the trees. Does not mean there are not lots of other important reasons for cultivating India.
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“The Washington Post has not responded to Singapore’s request to publish the ambassador’s letter, said MFA.”
US news outlets 'misguided' to expect Singapore to follow either US or China, says ambassador in response to Washington Post article on Lianhe Zaobao
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Very impressed with the new New Zealand Embassy building in Beijing.
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Lovely farewell lunch hosted by my great friend the Australian Ambassador, Brett Hackett, with wonderful colleagues from Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, ROK and UK, 1 Jun 21.
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“We cannot confuse hawkishness for strategy, or bluster for strength, and we must be cautious and clear about the consequences that a war or a full economic decoupling with China would unleash on the U.S. economy and American families.”
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Escorting Wang Yi during a visit to Auckland for Foreign Minister talks in Feb 2017.
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@pstAsiatech
He was simply making up a story to try and cover up why someone of Kissinger’s credentials and eminence should so clearly be appalled by current US policy towards China.
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Hard to pick whether more naive or disingenuous.
NZ PM Luxon chats security and AUKUS with Hosking on ZB this morning. Says there's tangible wins for NZ from SE Asia trip already, confirms discussions on AUKUS partnerships will happen "in coming months" and whacks Helen Clark and Labour over foreign policy shifts
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Interesting that two MMP countries, NZ and Germany, both currently have politicians from minor parties in charge of foreign policy, with the risk that what they are promoting is not necessarily very mainstream. Would not matter if foreign policy did not matter, but it does.
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Nueva Zelanda y Uruguay trabajan juntos para reducir emisiones de la producción ganadera de base pastoril | Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca
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Proud to have two offspring in the haka party.
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“ No decoupling, only rejiggering.”
There is NO meaningful decoupling of global trade from China. China's trade surplus with countries like Mexico (black) and Vietnam (blue) is up massively. Those goods don't stay in Mexico or Vietnam. They're trans-shipped to the rest of the world. No decoupling, only rejiggering.
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“New Zealand does not view China as a systemic threat, as the US does, and while it is under no illusions that it is an assertive and authoritarian country, this could account for the nation’s more measured response compared with its Five Eyes partners, Patman said. “New…
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Whatever are we doing?
Luxon's defence agreement with the Philippines would allow war exercises
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OPINION: The end of elimination shouldn't have come as a shock; that it did is down to the Government's failure to prepare people.
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On the eve of the 115th anniversary of his birth, remembering New Zealand’s greatest leader in the field of Animal Science, Dr CP McMeekan (known as Dr Mac), who from Massey and Ruakura did outstanding work facilitating modernisation and productivity growth in NZ farming and…
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Merry Christmas and Feliz Navidad from Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand
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For the same reason, China felt unable to proceed towards any decisive relinquishment of administrative control such as currency convertibility and integration into global capital markets. Such would require confidence in the competence and good faith of the global financial…
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A special shout out to Adam Firman, a Kiwi member of the Qantas crew of the special Anzac Day flight from Buenos Aires taking stranded Australians and New Zealander home. Warm thanks, Adam and Qantas!
@Qantas
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