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After being a 'welcome guest' at NATO, NZ now needs to consider what our partnership with the alliance really means

As a “welcomed guest” at the latest NATO summit in Lithuania, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins had a front-row seat for debates over Ukrainian membership, the role of countries outside NATO’s traditional geographic boundaries, the ongoing threat of China, military spending and an accelerating nuclear arms race.

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Nato balances Ukraine focus with Indo-Pacific interest

Chris Hipkins joins a Nato summit focused on the Ukraine war – but looking to the Indo-Pacific for shared security challenges.

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Hipkins jets to Nato having ditched novice diplomat status

Freshly back from China and about to jet to Europe, the Prime Minister is looking more comfortable than ever threading the complexities of both the US and China into New Zealand’s view of the world, writes Jo Moir

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Multi-million dollar cuts to scope of school building projects

Gyms, libraries and other critical learning spaces are being cut from school development plans, as the Ministry of Education struggles to manage soaring construction costs. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Raw Politics: Can the Greens save the left?

This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Can the Greens save Labour and the left bloc between now and the election, and Mr Hipkins goes to Vilnius and Brussels

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How to be friends with China

Avoiding being dragged into a potential new Cold War in the Indo-Pacific remains a strategic priority in Wellington, writes Dr Nicholas Ross Smith

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India could soon be the world’s third biggest economy – NZ needs to build the trade relationship urgently

India’s economy has emerged as a bright spot in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently the fifth largest global economy, it is predicted to become the third largest by 2030.

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New Zealand foreign policy turns a corner in Beijing

Nicholas Khoo examines three ways our relationship with China is creating new and formidable waves to navigate.

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Hipkins in China: Swimming in the deep end

The “boy from the Hutt” has pinched himself at every turn from Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to the iconic Bund in Shanghai. Chris Hipkins didn’t arrive a natural diplomat, but as political editor Jo Moir observes he will leave a much better one

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Political skeleton rattles PM's Beijing day

Wherever Chris Hipkins looks lately he finds himself having to clean up a mess that happened on his predecessor’s watch, writes political editor Jo Moir.

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Hipkins meets Xi Jinping: behind the handshakes, NZ walks an increasingly fine line with China

Chris Hipkins anticipated a “diplomatic” meeting with Xi Jinping. The Chinese leader said he placed “great importance” on the relationship with New Zealand. Both businesslike, Hipkins made sure to stress his country was open for business too.

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NZ keeps 'friend and partner' status with China

Chris Hipkins' refusal to follow the lead of the US and characterise Xi as a ‘dictator' has certainly been noticed in Beijing, writes political editor Jo Moir.

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Supply of medicines to NZ threatened after vaccine disclosure – Ombudsman

After the Government mistakenly released confidential information about Covid-19 vaccines, the health ministry says it was 'made clear' this could have implications for broader pharmaceutical and therapeutic supply.

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New Zealand Prime Minister Hipkins visits China to boost economic ties

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has discussed his country’s interest in boosting economic ties with China during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing

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Xi Jinping praises ‘great importance’ of China-New Zealand relations

Amid rising global tensions, Chinese leader tells PM, Chris Hipkins, his visit to Beijing is meaningful

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PM not expecting repeat of Mahuta 'haranguing' in China

Chris Hipkins will be in full diplomat-mode for his first face-to-face with China's President Xi after a reportedly robust meeting between their respective foreign ministers earlier this year.

The Times of India

New Zealand PM heads to China with two air force jets due to breakdown fears

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins took two air force jets with him on a trip to China in case the one he was traveling in broke down.

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New Zealand leader's plane so prone to breakdowns he takes a backup on China trip

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National learns lesson from 'boot camps' with new policy

National's new criminal sentencing policy offers up longer sentences for offenders, better rehabilitation and more cash for victims.

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Hipkins' first big diplomatic test meeting Xi

China’s locked doors have swung wide open in recent months with President Xi Jinping welcoming world leaders after years of isolation. Chris Hipkins makes the trip to the Great Hall of the People on Tuesday, in what will be the biggest test yet of his diplomacy skills

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Domestic squabbling and two men called Chris: what’s next for New Zealand politics after Jacinda Ardern

As the Jacindamania circus leaves town, international attention that sought to make New Zealand a model for western liberal democracy has started to wane

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'We must be broke again' – our China policy is trade

PM Chris Hipkins is already talking as if our China policy is simply trade. For its long-term management, it must be much more than that, argues Jason Young

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Sorry prime minister, Joe Biden was right – Xi Jinping really is a ‘dictator’

It’s not every day that a New Zealand prime minister takes China’s side in a disagreement between Washington and Beijing over whether the leader of China is a dictator.

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Dismissing tensions, Biden expects to see Xi despite 'dictators' jab

WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden voiced confidence Thursday that he would meet Xi Jinping soon, as he refused to back down after angering Beijing by likening the Chinese leader to "dictators."

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Raw Politics: Bonfire of the ministers

This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Are the wheels falling off the Labour light rail car, is the government's battery running low or is a fatalism at work leading to the run of ministerial errors and embarrassments.

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