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.
Trump’s Global Tariffs Are Meant For China
Article – Independent Media Institute The latest tariff blitz has China in the crosshairs. Building on earlier efforts by previous administrations, Trumps abrasiveness risks weakening Washingtons hand.
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WTF: Weird Tariff Frenzy – What It Means For NZ And The World
Article – RNZ Analysis: The US and China are head-to-head in a trade war, and as the saying goes ‘when two elephants fight, it’s the grass that gets trampled’.
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New Zealand Government Downplays Trump’s Tariffs, Despite Business Fears
Press Release – Socialist Equality Group Tariffs express the madness of the capitalist system, in which the world remains divided into rival nation states and imperialist powers, which are determined to strengthen their grip on natural resources and supply chains at the expense of their …
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Christopher Luxon Talks To World Leaders As Donald Trump Pauses Tariffs
Article – RNZ The Prime Minister says he will speak to world leaders today about working together to maintain free trade.
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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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Gordon Campbell on Labour’s housing policy, and TPP rewrites
Column – Gordon Campbell D riving round Dunedin South yesterday was an interesting place to be hearing the news of Labours new housing policy launch. In Corstorphine and Kew came street after street of state housing built in a previous era by an effective government …
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Lament for Humanity: A 50 Year Reflection
Robert J. Burrowes Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the ‘USS Sturgeon’ sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship ‘Montevideo Maru’ which killed the man after whom I am named, I decided that I would devote my life to working out
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Identity and change themes in Latin American forum
Press Release – Massey University Latin Americas colonial legacies and the impact of neoliberalism as well as food, football, film and feminism are among topics at conference of Latin American scholarship at Massey Universitys Auckland campus next week.
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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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