Jim Rolfe is a former NZ Army officer, academic, author and international defence consultant. This is his analysis of the Government's Defence Policy Statement.
The 2018 Strategic Policy Statement, released…
Defence Minister Ron Mark is playing down criticism of China contained in Friday’s Defence Policy Statement.
He says it is merely frank talk among friends and that he told China's General He Lei during th…
The backlash against the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement has forced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to go on the front foot to try and re-establish a bipartisan consensus on trade.
So th…
As Winston Peters likes to say, “words matter”.
And so diplomats in the audience at the opening of the prestigious University of Otago Foreign Policy School in Dunedin anxiously scanned his speech on Fr…
New Zealand’s relations with China have come under closer scrutiny over this year. We are the only Five Eyes country to seek an involvement in China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative which is reg…
