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November 26, 2020
VIDEO: Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning present A View from Afar. This week we discuss: How nations that have a long history of trading with China, are becoming intolerant to the People’s Republic’s covert influence operations. Specifically: * Why is China pursuing this 21st century-style of covert spying on its supposed trade-allies? * How ... <a title="VIDEO: China’s Influence Operations – Paul Buchanan & Selwyn Manning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/26/live-video-chinas-influence-operations-paul-buchanan-selwyn-manning/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: China’s Influence Operations – Paul Buchanan & Selwyn Manning">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University US Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken promises both awkwardness and opportunity for Australia’s Morrison government. Blinken could hardly represent a more striking contrast with his soon-to-be predecessor Mike Pompeo in his views on the need for America ... <a title="From ‘America first’ to ‘America together’: who is Antony Blinken, Biden’s pick for secretary of state?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/26/from-america-first-to-america-together-who-is-antony-blinken-bidens-pick-for-secretary-of-state-150739/" aria-label="Read more about From ‘America first’ to ‘America together’: who is Antony Blinken, Biden’s pick for secretary of state?">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney AstraZeneca has become the latest pharmaceutical company to reveal promising results in clinical trials, for its viral vector vaccine developed with the University of Oxford. In a group given two full doses of the ... <a title="AstraZeneca’s results signal more good vaccine news — but efficacy is only the beginning of the story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/24/astrazenecas-results-signal-more-good-vaccine-news-but-efficacy-is-only-the-beginning-of-the-story-150732/" aria-label="Read more about AstraZeneca’s results signal more good vaccine news — but efficacy is only the beginning of the story">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. To the surprise of most pundits, substantial real estate price inflation has resumed, after a hiatus from 2017 to 2019. As to be expected, most of the usual tropes have been employed: a lack of supply, immigration (in this latest case returning New Zealanders), and low interest rates. The only missing ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Fixing the 2020 New Zealand House Price Bubble" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/23/keith-rankin-analysis-fixing-the-2020-new-zealand-house-price-bubble/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Fixing the 2020 New Zealand House Price Bubble">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica C Lai, Associate Professor in Commercial Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand is in an economic recession and the government is trying to spend its way through it with direct investment to boost the economy and jobs. At the same time, ... <a title="‘Courageous’ investment means innovation stays in NZ, not sold off overseas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/20/courageous-investment-means-innovation-stays-in-nz-not-sold-off-overseas-150381/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Courageous’ investment means innovation stays in NZ, not sold off overseas">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Pickering, Assistant Professor, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Now Joe Biden is on track to be the next US president, there has been plenty of speculation about what this means for Australia’s policies on climate change. Biden promises to achieve a ... <a title="After Biden’s win, Australia needs to step up and recommit to this vital UN climate change fund" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/20/after-bidens-win-australia-needs-to-step-up-and-recommit-to-this-vital-un-climate-change-fund-150444/" aria-label="Read more about After Biden’s win, Australia needs to step up and recommit to this vital UN climate change fund">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Blair Williams, Associate Lecturer, School of Political Science and International Relations, Australian National University Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has long dominated the Australian media landscape, wielding great political and cultural influence. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s record-breaking petition calling for a royal commission into Australian media ownership ... <a title="There’s a big problem with the Murdoch media no one is talking about — how it treats women leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/19/theres-a-big-problem-with-the-murdoch-media-no-one-is-talking-about-how-it-treats-women-leaders-149986/" aria-label="Read more about There’s a big problem with the Murdoch media no one is talking about — how it treats women leaders">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2020
VIDEO: Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will go LIVE at 1pm (NZDST) , that’s 7pm (US EST) to present A View from Afar. Topics to discuss this week include how security/defence and trade deals don’t always go hand in hand. Specifically: * On Security, China is alone in the Western Pacific as the USA, ... <a title="VIDEO: Indo-Pacific Security and the RCEP Trade Pact – Paul Buchanan & Selwyn Manning discuss" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/18/scheduled-live-video-a-view-from-afar-with-paul-buchanan-selwyn-manning-insecurity-trade-deals-in-the-western-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Indo-Pacific Security and the RCEP Trade Pact – Paul Buchanan & Selwyn Manning discuss">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Today I have chosen six countries, each with Covid19 case experiences over the last three weeks (days 250 to 270) that are orders of magnitude apart. A country with 1,000 daily cases per 100 million people is classed as magnitude three; that’s three zeros after the ‘one’. A country with 1 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Orders of Magnitude" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/18/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-orders-of-magnitude/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Orders of Magnitude">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2020
By RNZ News The meat industry is waiting with bated breath to find out if there is any truth that New Zealand meat is linked to a coolstore in China where covid-19 has been found on packaging. Reuters has reported the virus was found on beef and tripe products in a storage facility containing shipments ... <a title="Covid-19: Ardern confident NZ products ‘not exported with covid’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/16/covid-19-ardern-confident-nz-products-not-exported-with-covid/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19: Ardern confident NZ products ‘not exported with covid’">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart shows the world’s most economically developed countries, including three of the most developed in Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Hungary and Czechia), and one of the most developed in South America (Uruguay). In early November, the countries with the most positive results are all clustered around Austria, in central Europe. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Test Positivity Rates are a Measure of a Country’s Covid-19 Outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/16/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-test-positivity-rates-are-a-measure-of-a-countrys-covid-19-outbreak/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Test Positivity Rates are a Measure of a Country’s Covid-19 Outbreak">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election raises a perennial question about what Rupert Murdoch does when the candidate he has opposed wins. Answer: He adapts and he waits. Electoral cycles last three, four ... <a title="Courting the chameleon: how the US election reveals Rupert Murdoch’s political colours" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/16/courting-the-chameleon-how-the-us-election-reveals-rupert-murdochs-political-colours-149910/" aria-label="Read more about Courting the chameleon: how the US election reveals Rupert Murdoch’s political colours">Read more</a>
