AUKUS or Not, New Zealand’s Foreign Policy Is Being Remade

AUKUS or Not, New Zealand’s Foreign Policy Is Being Remade

This could be a watershed week for New Zealand’s international relations. Winston Peters, the foreign minister, is heading to Washington, D.C., for a full week of meetings. The surprisingly lengthy trip just happens to coincide with a major trilateral summit of leaders from the United States, Japan, and the Philippines. And a media report over … Read more

New Zealand Gets Ready to Embrace NATO

New Zealand Gets Ready to Embrace NATO

Advertisement Is New Zealand about to join a “NATO-Plus”? That seems to be the effective endgame, if reports ahead of New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ attendance at the NATO summit in Lithuania are anything to go by. Formally, the expansion by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) into the Indo-Pacific is unlikely to use … Read more