Tag: New Zealand

New Zealand’s defence plan lifts spending, emphasises partnerships (Steven Paget – The Strategist)

The Five Eyes are really four eyes and a wink, according to a joke that derides New Zealand’s limited defence spending. Publication of the...

With New Zealand the latest to join, the Philippines is building a network of defence partners amid South China Sea tensions (Andrea Chloe Wong...

The Philippines signed a Status of Visiting Forces Agreement with New Zealand last month, regulating the deployment of troops for joint military exercises. The...

Open newsletter – february 23, 2022

ASIA A divide is emerging between how the Asia Pacific region has responded to the Omicron wave of COVID-19, and how North American and Western...

Daily news – February 9, 2022

News from: Al Jazeera, Brookings, East Asia Forum, Global Times, Key4Biz, Reuters, RFE RL, The Jamestown Foundation, ThinkChina, US Department of State  AFRICA The criticality of...

New Zealand’s bipartisan housing reforms offer a model to other countries (Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, Brookings)

Over the past decade, many cities around the world have experienced a significant rise in housing costs, and the large cities of New Zealand...

New Zealand: No longer Australia’s Pacific security partner? (Robert Ayson, The Interpreter)

The prophecy was delivered in 2014. “It is likely that over the next ten years,” Wellington’s Defence Assessment foretold, “New Zealand will deploy military and other...

NZ has mature ties with China that allow for disagreement: PM (Wang Miao, Global Times)

New Zealand now has "mature" ties with China that allow for disagreement, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said during a TV interview on...

New Zealand – New Zealand working on a consumer data right regulatory regime (Asha Barbaschow, ZD Net)

The New Zealand government will be establishing a consumer data right (CDR) framework for the nation as part of hopes to put consumers "in...

New Zealand – Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand (CFR)

Speaker The Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister, New Zealand Presider Richard N. Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, The World: A Brief Introduction; @RichardHaass Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discusses the...

New Zealand – New Zealand to apologize for ‘racist’ historic police raids (Al Arabiya)

(File photo) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday she will offer a formal apology to New Zealand’s Pacific community over “demeaning” police raids that targeted them...

New Zealand – Is macroprudential policy fair game in New Zealand’s struggle with house prices? (East Asia Forum)

Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, University of Auckland Is macroprudential policy fair game in New Zealand’s struggle with house prices? (eastasiaforum.org)

New Zealand/China – A new era for New Zealand–China relations? (East Asia Forum)

Jason Young, Victoria University of Wellington A new era for New Zealand–China relations? | East Asia Forum

Australia/China/New Zealand – Closing Australia’s China policy gaps, while contrasting with New Zealand (The Strategist)

Michael Shoebridge The big positive from the federal government cancelling Beijing’s two Belt and Road Initiative agreements with the Victorian government is that Australia is getting coherent...

(New Zealand) Why is the New Zealand government telling its central bank to focus on rising house prices? (Brookings)

Tyler Powell and David Wessel New Zealand is a small economy, but it is a trend setter of sorts in central banking. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/04/02/why-is-the-new-zealand-government-telling-its-central-bank-to-focus-on-rising-house-prices/

(New Zealand/Australia) Allies but not friends? New Zealand and Australia (The Interpreter)

ROBERT AYSON A pub quiz question for foreign policy nerds in ten years’ time: In early 2021, why did New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern accuse Scott...

(New Zealand/Indigenous Foreign Policy) Foreign policy’s “Indigenous moment” is here (The Interpreter)

JAMES BLACKWELL New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta, the first Maori woman in that role, hit the ground running in her first few months in...