Auckland small business owner. Retired NZ diplomat. Former Ambassador to China, CT Amb, Amb to Argentina, C-G in Hong Kong, and Chargé in Washington DC.
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Conscious that there have been a lot of “socialist” purchases of industry going on but did not know Boeing was now owned by the US Government. Clearly have missed something.
The New Zealand Air Force with U.S.-provided aircraft find three lost at sea.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon crew located three people who had been missing at sea off Kiribati for four days and kept watch as a responding vessel brought them to safety.
In July 2018 New Zealand bought four Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft from the U.S. Government to support search and rescue, maritime surveillance, and disaster response across the Pacific.
This rescue shows what that investment means for Pacific communities: expert Kiwi crews using American technology to help save lives.
Keeping people safe is a shared priority. Thank you to the RNZAF crew and everyone involved in bringing these three people to safety.
Read more: 1news.co.nz/2026/10/13/kirib… 🇺🇸🇳🇿
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In 27 years as a Foreign Service officer, I executed policies of presidents I voted for and presidents I did not vote for.
That’s what a nonpartisan service does.
This is outrageous.
SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
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The UAE is currently flouting the UN and fueling a genocide in Sudan. Incredible hubris from McGurk to suggest this and it raises concerning questions about what he’s doing professionally after leaving government.
How did UAE become the largest global provider of humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to UN data? Because of Lana Nussaibeh—a diplomat who knows everyone and works with them to GSD. She would be an inspired choice for this impossible job.
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Major General Rezaei, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, speaking to Drop Site:
🔻 “We will not return to the previous approach to diplomacy, but neither will we abandon diplomacy. We have presented seven new conditions through mediators. Until these conditions are implemented, Iran will neither reopen the Strait of Hormuz nor return to negotiations.
🔸 The difference this time is that we are embedding guarantees into the very structure of the agreement. First, the commitments must be fulfilled; then Iran will decide whether to reopen the strait, followed by the resumption of shipping under new arrangements agreed upon with Oman.
🔻 We are no longer interested in an agreement whose only guarantee is the other side’s political goodwill.
🔸 If Washington fulfills its commitments, there will be a path toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz and continuing diplomacy. However, Iran will not relinquish the leverage that brought the other side to the negotiating table and then wait to see whether the promises are fulfilled.”
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RT @DanDePetris: I don’t know if a lot of people understand that Iran didn’t have a nuclear weapon, wasn’t building a nuclear weapon and wi…
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Back in 1997, when there was real uncertainty about the way that the common law and the judiciary would function in Hong Kong after its return to China, the eminent and venerable New Zealand jurist Sir Robin Cooke (later Baron Cooke of Thorndon) agreed to serve as a judge in Hong Kong, notwithstanding the risks, precisely to help preserve and enhance the common law in such a special jurisdiction.
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It is a pretty remarkable thing to have a high quality common law jurisdiction as part of modern China and Asia and a valuable service to the region’s and world’s business community, not least from other common law jurisdictions like NZ. While there is a risk of some kinds of political prosecutions that might not take place in a jurisdiction like NZ, this is a very specialist area and the vast bulk of the proceedings of the HK judiciary are like those in NZ. Our high quality judges are well placed to assist uphold and develop the valuable and historic role of the common law in Hong Kong. newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/20/se…
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Back in 1997, when there was real uncertainty about the way that the common law and the judiciary would function in Hong Kong after its return to China, the eminent and venerable New Zealand jurist Sir Robin Cooke (later Baron Cooke of Thorndon) agreed to serve as a judge in Hong Kong, notwithstanding the risks, precisely to help preserve and enhance the common law in such a special jurisdiction.
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Watch this space. NZ has voted as part of the overwhelming global majority calling for the lifting of the US embargo against Cuba every year since the annual UN resolutions began in 1992. Last year, in maintaining our position, Winston Peters however had some words added to our explanation of vote making clear we felt conflicted about not doing what the US wanted. What will happen next week? Will we continue to show a backbone or join Israel, Paraguay, Argentina etc?
🇨🇺 Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the U.S. of threatening UN member states with sanctions if they vote next week to end the U.S. embargo of Cuba.
Rodriguez said the U.S. threats comprise an “unprecedented” pressure campaign conducted in “a brazen manner.” U.S. punishments include visa denials, economic sanctions, and even “support for forces opposed to those governments,” Rodriguez told reporters.
Earlier this week, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz publicly called on UN member states to oppose the resolution. The vote on the resolution, which is recorded annually, has passed by wide margins every year since 1992.
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Hard to watch that interview with @IlhanMN by @chrislhayes where a sitting member of Congress describes her life in hiding because our own govt is using gestapo tactics to terrorize her family. Every Republican knows that nothing will come of this “investigation” other than this debasement of the whole system by Trump. They all know it.
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Looks like diversity is not a big thing in that scene.
❤️ A powerful moment in the Oval Office as @POTUS is surrounded by Catholics in prayer.
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No one should be naive about the meddling going on by others who have much wider seas to cross. If there is any excuse for NZ’s failure it is that we are no longer an authoritative power in the region, even in our sub-region. We have been happy to sign away our moral authority for the baubles of the role of deputy to the deputy sheriff. Peters and Luxon have a lot to answer for.
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Baloch militants in Iran carrying American weapons delivered by Taliban in Afghanistan. We have seen these same weapons in the hands of the TTP and BLA in Pakistan. Geopolitics is a very complex game.
#Iran 🇮🇷: “Jaysh al-Adl” (People's Fighters Front) released a new video of a militant who was killed by Iranian Forces in #Balochistan.
The militant were carrying a #USA-made 🇺🇸 M16A4 assault rifle mounted with a Pulsar Trail XP/XQ 38/50 Thermal Scope.
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“Now that Donald Trump has come out of the closet and made the United States an open ally of Russia against Ukraine, what response can we expect from the people responsible for New Zealand’s foreign policy? None, probably. All year, Winston Peters has chosen to genuflect to Washington on every major foreign policy issue.”
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"Winston Peters has been steadily dismantling Clark’s approach.
Peters is detaching us from the multilateral organisations that sustain those norms."
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“Former PM Helen Clark laid the foundation of this country’s 21st century foreign policy. On her watch, our foreign policy would no longer be dictated by our traditional allies, but guided by our own interests, in accord with the norms of international law articulated by the United Nations. Clark’s worldview became the standard position of Labour and National governments alike. As a small trading nation, so the rhetoric went, we have a vital interest in the norms of international law being upheld.
Since the advent of the coalition government however, we have been flouting those norms, and lining up behind the most unreliable version of Team America that the world has ever seen. Throughout 2026, Winston Peters has been steadily dismantling Clark’s approach. Oh, lip service is still paid to international norms but – more and more – Peters is detaching us from the multilateral organisations that sustain those norms.”
"Winston Peters has been steadily dismantling Clark’s approach.
Peters is detaching us from the multilateral organisations that sustain those norms."
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Some genuine questions: Would Netanyahu really attack Iran this close to Israel’s Oct. 27 election? Wouldn’t much of even the Israeli public see it as a blatant attempt to disrupt or postpone the vote?
My sense is that, putting aside all the noise, the closer we've been getting to Oct. 27 without an attack, the less likely an Israeli attack becomes. And we’re now just a few days away.
Especially since (and I just looked this up) postponing the election requires at least 80 votes in the Knesset, which seems extremely unlikely given how polarized the electorate is there.
I do think the risk of another US and/or Israeli attack rises sharply after the Nov. 3 US midterms. In the immediate window, however, I'm not so sure. But of course I wouldn't put any insanity past the Trump/Netanyahu duo.
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Important paper here from one of the best historians of US foreign policy.
The domestic foundation of American global power is crumbling. Trump is less the cause than a symptom and an accelerant. Since the Cold War ended, the United States has pursued global primacy under an implicit bargain with the public: dominance would come cheap. Today Americans are no more willing to bear serious costs for foreign policy than they were in the 1990s. But a far more competitive world is driving up the price of upholding U.S. commitments.
No matter who wins the White House in 2028, this gap will constrain American power around the world.
In a new @CarnegieEndow paper, I trace the U.S. foreign-policy consensus from the Cold War to the present and outline three scenarios for the future:
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Conflicting statements from Vanuatu on if the country will reduce Chinese police presence on the ground.
@AustraliaChair
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Trump & US war planners misread Tehran as on the verge of collapse. Instead, Iran's leaders are now committed to match escalation with escalation until securing a negotiated settlement based on mutual concessions, argues @SinaToossi in @CIPolicyJournal internationalpolicy.org/publ…
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