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Tag: Nanaia Mahuta

May 30, 2022
Geoffrey Miller: Nanaia Mahuta under pressure as Pacific’s geopolitical Great Game heats up

Geoffrey Miller: Nanaia Mahuta under pressure as Pacific’s geopolitical Great Game heats up

As a new ‘Great Game’ for control of the Pacific escalates, New Zealand’s foreign minister is coming under pressure from all sides. For those keeping score, China has now signed co-operation agreements with Samoa and Kiribati, while the US has convinced Fiji to join its new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF). Most details of …

November 3, 2020
Geoffrey Miller: Foreign policy in a pandemic – Nanaia Mahuta’s first challenges as foreign minister

Geoffrey Miller: Foreign policy in a pandemic – Nanaia Mahuta’s first challenges as foreign minister

Over the past 30 years, ministerial responsibility for New Zealand’s foreign affairs has changed hands remarkably rarely. Since 1990, just four individuals have dominated the portfolio – Don McKinnon (1990-1999), Phil Goff (1999-2005), Winston Peters (2005-8 and again from 2017 to 2020) and Murray McCully (2008-2017). Only two others have held the role, and then …

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