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April 11, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has New Zealand firmly in its sights. Last week, New Zealand’s foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta attended the annual NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels – alongside her counterparts from Australia, Japan and South Korea. Mahuta’s participation came after New Zealand’s then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ... <a title="Geoff Miller’s Political Roundup: Why NZ is getting closer to NATO" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/geoff-millers-political-roundup-why-nz-is-getting-closer-to-nato/" aria-label="Read more about Geoff Miller’s Political Roundup: Why NZ is getting closer to NATO">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2023
RNZ News Jacinda Ardern will largely be remembered in Aotearoa New Zealand as the prime minister whose pandemic-era policies saved thousands of Kiwi lives, according to former prime minister Helen Clark. And she will also be considered an example of how to govern in the age of social media and endless crises, political experts say, ... <a title="Jacinda Ardern’s legacy for NZ: Unique covid-19 strategy ‘saved many lives’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/05/jacinda-arderns-legacy-for-nz-unique-covid-19-strategy-saved-many-lives/" aria-label="Read more about Jacinda Ardern’s legacy for NZ: Unique covid-19 strategy ‘saved many lives’">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
US President Joe Biden (right) meets with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (left) during the AUKUS summit at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego California on 13 March 2023. Image: RNZ Pacific/Jim Watson/AFP “But it is what it is,” he said of the tripartite arrangement. ‘Escalation of tension’“We’ve already seen it will lead to ... <a title="Aukus ‘going against’ Pacific nuclear free treaty – Cook Islands leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/aukus-going-against-pacific-nuclear-free-treaty-cook-islands-leader/" aria-label="Read more about Aukus ‘going against’ Pacific nuclear free treaty – Cook Islands leader">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Greg Fry and Terence Wesley-Smith In his recently published article “Sea of many flags”, the head of the ANU National Security College Rory Medcalf makes the case for why Pacific Island states should regard the deep regional involvement of a Western coalition of powers, “quietly” led by Australia, as an effective and attractive ... <a title="Sea of Western flags in Oceania? It’s really about a continuing hegemony" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/12/sea-of-western-flags-in-oceania-its-really-about-a-continuing-hegemony/" aria-label="Read more about Sea of Western flags in Oceania? It’s really about a continuing hegemony">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller. Political Roundup: NZ’s foreign policy hardens under new leadership Times are changing in New Zealand foreign policy. That seems to be the message from New Zealand’s new triumvirate of ministers with responsibility for foreign affairs and defence – Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta and defence minister Andrew Little. Jacinda ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: NZ’s foreign policy hardens under new leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/07/geoffrey-millers-political-roundup-nzs-foreign-policy-hardens-under-new-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: NZ’s foreign policy hardens under new leadership">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller. Political Roundup: New Zealand resets relationships with Australia and India The first clues to New Zealand’s foreign policy after Jacinda Ardern are beginning to emerge. Chris Hipkins, the new Prime Minister, decided to retain Nanaia Mahuta as his foreign minister – and both Hipkins and Mahuta took to the skies last ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller – Political Roundup: New Zealand resets relationships with Australia and India " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/13/geoffrey-miller-political-roundup-new-zealand-resets-relationships-with-australia-and-india/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller – Political Roundup: New Zealand resets relationships with Australia and India ">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2023
RNZ Pacific Washington has announced plans to reopen the United States Embassy in Solomon Islands. Inside the Games reports that the move is a bid to counter China’s increasing assertiveness in the region, which has seen Beijing fund infrastructure for this year’s Pacific Games which take place later this year. The US Department of State ... <a title="Fears over China influence leads US to reopen Solomon Islands embassy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/17/fears-over-china-influence-leads-us-to-reopen-solomon-islands-embassy/" aria-label="Read more about Fears over China influence leads US to reopen Solomon Islands embassy">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2023
By Mar-Vic Cagurangan, editor-in-chief of the Pacific Island Times The Federated States of Micronesia will receive more US economic assistance under the Compact of Free Association in exchange for the Pacific nation’s broader role in regional security that entails expanded military use of its land, water and air. “Of paramount importance is that our nation’s ... <a title="US to boost aid to Micronesia in exchange for broader military role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/17/us-to-boost-aid-to-micronesia-in-exchange-for-broader-military-role/" aria-label="Read more about US to boost aid to Micronesia in exchange for broader military role">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2022
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Daniel Kovalik Miami On December 12 to 13, 2022, an evidentiary hearing in the case of The United States v. Alex Saab was heard before Judge Robert Scola in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The only issue in the hearing was the question ... <a title="Saab Hearing Proves He Deserves Diplomatic Immunity, Exposes Prosecution’s Duplicity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/17/saab-hearing-proves-he-deserves-diplomatic-immunity-exposes-prosecutions-duplicity/" aria-label="Read more about Saab Hearing Proves He Deserves Diplomatic Immunity, Exposes Prosecution’s Duplicity">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya “We are part of them and they are part of us,” declared politician Augustine Rapa, founder and president of the PNG Liberal Democratic Party, on the 61st anniversary of the struggle for West Papuan independence earlier this month. Rapa’s statement of West Papua at Gerehu, Port Moresby, on December 1 was ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: While West Papuans face an ‘existential threat’ under Indonesia, PNG plans defence pact with Jakarta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/15/yamin-kogoya-while-west-papuans-face-an-existential-threat-under-indonesia-png-plans-defence-pact-with-jakarta/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: While West Papuans face an ‘existential threat’ under Indonesia, PNG plans defence pact with Jakarta">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2022
In this, the 25th episode of A View from Afar for 2022 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning will examine how hostage taking, prisoner exchanges, and establishing diplomatic back-channels work and how they are used by states during times of conflict.
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December 15, 2022
LIVE@MIDDAY NZ Time – 6pm USEST – In this, the 25th episode of A View from Afar for 2022 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning will examine how hostage taking, prisoner exchanges, and establishing diplomatic back-channels work and how they are used by states during times of conflict. Specifically, Paul and Selwyn will ... <a title="LIVE @ Midday – Hostage Taking, Prisoner Exchanges and Back-Channels – Buchanan and Manning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/15/live-midday-hostage-taking-prisoner-exchanges-and-back-channels-buchanan-and-manning/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE @ Midday – Hostage Taking, Prisoner Exchanges and Back-Channels – Buchanan and Manning">Read more</a>
