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PODCAST: Buchanan and Manning on Microlateralism – Is This How New Zealand Becomes Relevant on the World Stage?

May 6, 2021

Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan debate: How recently New Zealand Government confirmed its intention to be defined as an independent Pacific Island state, where its foreign policy should be considered against the collective values that its peoples share, and its diplomacy (if you consider human rights issues) will now be expressed multilaterally with likeminded countries. But how does this work in practice?

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PODCAST: Buchanan and Manning on NZ Govt’s Commitment to Foreign Policy Independence – Is it an Achievable Quest?

April 22, 2021

This week, New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta, anchored New Zealand within the Asia Pacific region as an independent Pacific Island state, with independence being the foundation of how it will engage with the outside world, and with multilateralism being the thread that knits this foreign policy together. How is this rekindled statement of independence being received by global and regional powers?

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Video: Buchanan and Manning on Why Regional Powers are Provoking Flash-Points to War

April 14, 2021

A View from Afar: Midday Thursday (NZST, Wednesday 7pm US EDST) – Join this LIVE recording of this week’s podcast where Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan will debate: Why regional powers including Russia, Israel, Iran are willing to provoke flash-points that risk triggering a wider war. In recent weeks, Israel is suspected of espionage destroying an ... <a title="Video: Buchanan and Manning on Why Regional Powers are Provoking Flash-Points to War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/14/scheduled-video-buchanan-and-manning-on-why-regional-powers-are-provoking-flash-points-to-war/" aria-label="Read more about Video: Buchanan and Manning on Why Regional Powers are Provoking Flash-Points to War">Read more</a>

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VIDEO: Buchanan and Manning on China + USA Construct Cold War-Styled Coalitions

April 7, 2021

A View from Afar – Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan debate: how in the last two weeks, China and the United States have been advancing distinct and separate defence alliances – positioning that is akin to the old Cold War. On one hand, the US has been building up a coalition of allies that is ... <a title="VIDEO: Buchanan and Manning on China + USA Construct Cold War-Styled Coalitions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/07/scheduled-live-buchanan-and-manning-on-china-usa-construct-cold-war-styled-coalitions/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Buchanan and Manning on China + USA Construct Cold War-Styled Coalitions">Read more</a>

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PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning on Political Symbolism and How to Spot It

April 1, 2021

A View from Afar - Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan debate political symbolism and discuss: How governments use symbolism to accentuate intent and identity. Some of it is fact, and some of it is fiction, some of it is designed to divert attention and deceive. In this episode Buchanan and Manning show you how to sift through the wheat from the chaff.

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PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning: Ethical Trade and China + Myanmar’s Descent into Military Rule

March 18, 2021

Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning discuss this week’s revelations by Paula Penfold and the Stuff Circuit team that a New Zealand tech company (with New Zealand Government investment) has been in business with iFlytec – a Chinese company alleged to be involved with surveillance of China’s oppressed Uyghur people. ALSO, we discuss Myanmar and the disturbing reality that Myanmar's military has overthrown once again the democratically elected government.

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PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning on private enterprise and the conflict market

March 4, 2021

In this episode of A View from Afar, Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning conduct a deep dive into the largely covert role of private enterprise in the global intelligence, conflict, and war markets. Should New Zealand Government (and other states that pursue an independent foreign policy) legislate to control profiteering from the 'kill chain' market?

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PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning on the Australia-New Zealand Special Relationship

February 18, 2021

In this episode of A View from Afar, Selwyn Manning is joined by political scientist and former Pentagon analyst Paul Buchanan to discuss: * Australia and New Zealand – are these two Pacific nations culturally and politically too distant and different to sustain their traditional ‘special relationship’? * The latest spat between New Zealand’s Prime ... <a title="PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning on the Australia-New Zealand Special Relationship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/podcast-buchanan-manning-on-the-australia-new-zealand-special-relationship/" aria-label="Read more about PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning on the Australia-New Zealand Special Relationship">Read more</a>