Trump Is Threatening More Tariffs Over Access To Critical Minerals – Will NZ Be Targeted?
Article – The Conversation The US depends on imports of over 40 critical minerals and Donald Trump is looking for trade deals on his terms.
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NZ Is Looking For A Deal Over Trump’s New Tariffs – That Could Come With A High Political Price
Article – The Conversation Governments are scrambling to cut deals before new US tariffs kick in on August 7. But with Trump using the process for political leverage, NZ must tread carefully.
Aid Is Under Attack – Meet Pacific Community Leaders Implementing Kiwi Funded Aid
Press Release – ChildFund New Zealand Pacific community leaders from Kiribati, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu are visiting New Zealand to talk about their projects funded by the New Zealand public and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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On Luxon’s Survival Chances, And The India FTA
Article – Gordon Campbell Whenever Christopher Luxon drops a classically fatuous clanger or whenever the government has a bad poll i.e. every week the talk resumes that he is about to be rolled. This is unlikely for several reasons. For starters, there is no successor.
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Last Days to Contribute to NZ Open Government Action Plan
Article – Open Source Open Society New Zealands Open Government Partnership Action Plan is open for consultation until the end of day on this Friday 26 August. If you care about transparency, accountability participation and better use of technology in the way our government is run then …
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Patronage, Journalism and Open Society.
Article – James Littlewood A panel discussion this morning shone a very bright light on a very familiar problem: the problem of journalism; knowing whats going on; keeping the bastards honest. Marianne Ellion (of Action Station) hosted the discussion with Mark Jennings (Mediaworks), …
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Joyce to promote education, science links in Japan and Korea
Press Release – New Zealand Government Minister for Economic Development 22 August 2016 Media Statement Joyce to promote education and science links in Japan and Korea
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The Flagging TPPA: The US Election and Free Trade Politics
Opinion – Binoy Kampmark Being savaged by Donald J. Trump on one side of the electoral aisle, and modestly beaten by the Democratic presumptive candidate, Hillary Clinton, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is lying somewhere between near death and miraculous survival. …
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Gordon Campbell on what John Key should be asking Joe Biden
Key needs to be asking Biden about how and why the White House is busily circumventing the TPP deal signed in Auckland earlier this year. First published on Werewolf
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NZ’s lack of action on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Press Release – Independent Maori Monitoring Mechanism Iwi Mori have taken the government to task about their lack of implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Members of the Monitoring Mechanism, an independent working group of the National Iwi Chairs Forum …
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India & NZ serious about expanding investment
Press Release – India New Zealand Business Council “India & NZ are serious about expanding investment opportunities, says John Key at INZBC Summit 2016.
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Gordon Campbell on the RCEP trade deal and other entanglements
Article – Gordon Campbell So China and the US both have competing trade deals on offer the TPP for the US and the RCEP for the Chinese – each of which pointedly exclude the other superpower. That fact alone should signal that these deals are not primarily about mere trade …
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