Obama casts TPP as Challenge to China
Press Release – Jane Kelsey Obama casts TPP as Challenge to China – will Groser now walk away?
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Obama casts TPP as Challenge to China – will Groser now walk
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Media release: Professor Jane Kelsey Wednesday October 24, 2012 Obama casts TPP as Challenge to China – will Groser now walk away? Trade Minister Tim Groser stated unequivocally in February this year that New Zealand would pull out of the Trans-Pacific …
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S. America: Polar Ideologies Surface Due to Tempered Growth
Article – Council on Hemispheric Affairs • Global risk aversion, primarily stemming from uncertainty surrounding the Eurozone recession, has reduced commodity demand from Asia as well as capital outflows, which has moderated growth in South America. • • While Colombia’s response to slowed …
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Gordon Campbell: Chinese shadow over Key’s trip to Hollywood
Column – Gordon Campbell While John Key was in Los Angeles wooing the US studio executives at dinner to bring more film projects to New Zealand, a significant piece of mutual wooing was almost simultaneously taking place on the other side of the Pacific rim.
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$1/4 million fund launched to stimulate Japanese tourism
Press Release – Auckland Airport Media Release – 18 September 2012 $1/4 million fund launched to stimulate Japanese tourism Auckland Airport initiative supports PM’s focus on Japan, with new fund to help tourism industry attract Japanese travellers Japanese market poised to rebound …
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Gordon Campbell on John Banks, and Japanese politicking
Column – Gordon Campbell Don’t ask, don’t tell. The “gays in the military” strategy that John Key has chosen to adopt with respect to the John Banks Affair is daily calling for more and more implausible declarations of prophylactic ignorance by the Prime Minister.
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Gordon Campbell on journalism, and John Armstrong
Column – Gordon Campbell Watching a round of hair pulling and name-calling between journalists is rarely a rewarding sight, so I apologise in advance to anyone of a nervous or irritable disposition for this morning’s column. Allegedly, I have been unfair and mean to John Armstrong …
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Powerplays: TPPA v ASEAN-plus-six FTA
The super-power contest is heating up. Negotiations for a competing mega-FTA between 10 ASEAN countries and China, India, Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand have just been launched. China is in and the US is not! NZ wants to keep a foot in each camp. Trade Minister Tim Groser is putting his eggs in the
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Outgoing RBNZ Governor Bollard confirmed to lead APEC
Article – BusinessDesk Sept. 7 (BusinessDesk) – Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard, who delivers his final monetary policy statement next week, has been confirmed as the next leader of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Secretariat.
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Goff warns US on TPP expectations, cuddles China
Article – BusinessDesk July 24 (BusinessDesk) – A Labour-led government would not allow the United States to dictate terms on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreements or allow the US to use the agreement as a pretext for containing “China’s economic advance.”
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Clinton Remarks With Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh
Press Release – US State Department SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Foreign Minister Minh, for your warm welcome today. It’s wonderful being back in Vietnam, and I appreciate this opportunity to reaffirm the growing and mutually beneficial partnership between our two nations.
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Remarks With Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh After Meeting
Press Release – US State Department SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Foreign Minister Minh, for your warm welcome today. It’s wonderful being back in Vietnam, and I appreciate this opportunity to reaffirm the growing and mutually beneficial partnership between our two nations.
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