Gordon Campbell on our unthinking readiness to confront China
Other countries regard trade deals as an adjunct of diplomacy and defence and proceed accordingly.
Other countries regard trade deals as an adjunct of diplomacy and defence and proceed accordingly.
The realities of market competition on the ground are likely to put a considerable dent in the rosy estimates delivered by the MFAT modeling
Jacinda Ardern is flatly, 100% wrong when she says that most countries are now chasing multilateral trade deals like the TPP 11 deal she’s due to sign in Chile on March 8.
TPP countries gathered in Vietnam have announced a deal in broad principle, shunted aside until a later date the stuff on which they don’t agree, and declared victory.
The question is not whether the original TPP will be changed – it will be by how much, depending on what extent of changes the signatories can abide.
David Parker needs to continue how he has started
For some people, words like ‘tax’ and ‘regulation’ and ‘government intervention’ are fighting talk.
On trade and foreign ownership, Peters is talking sense…
What every voter needs to know about the Trans Pacific Partnership, and our government’s continued support of it…. by William L. Jobson Trade policy is […]
According to Todd McClay the European Union says it wants to conclude a FTA with NZ by the end of 2019. That timetable sounds unbelievably optimistic.
DHBs are under intense pressure to reduce deficits within a climate of chronic underfunding.
English has not got the foggiest idea what benefits this deal stands to bring right now, in a month’s time, or by year’s end – much less longer term out until 2030.
As PM Bill English flies off to Japan with his business delegation today, his discussions with Shinzo Abe will focus on how to keep the TPP trade pact alive, now that the US has bailed.
The chaotic presidency of Donald Trump has been a weird form of spectator sport for the past three weeks. Horrible, but you can’t stop watching […]
So we now we know how much it costs to buy New Zealand citizenship.
We all supposedly agree that the media is going to hell in a tabloid handbasket, but the trends to the contrary can be a bit harder to spot.
One significant factor Morgan does have going for him is that doesn’t appear to regard success or failure in ordinary political terms.
There’s no getting away from the fact that Trump’s victory makes the world a more dangerous place.
Here’s this morning’s latest take on the TPP’s chances of survival. They’re not good.
John Key’s rationale for refusing to throw the state’s resources behind reducing child poverty is the lamest excuse since “The dog ate my homework.”
New Zealand is currently chairing the 15 person Security Council for the last time during our two year term on the Council.
Key needs to be asking Biden about how – and why – the White House is busily circumventing the TPP deal signed earlier this year
Driving round Dunedin South yesterday was an interesting place to be hearing the news of Labour’s new housing policy launch.
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.
The miserly nature of New Zealand’s response to the global refugee crisis continues apace.
Already, the European Commission wants to scrap the TPP’s investor-state dispute mechanisms
Why a reluctant Japan may be all that is keeping the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade deal on life support
The TPP trade deal is in deep trouble…
The TPP trade deal needs to take a stand against Big Tobacco
Does what the government is saying inside the TPP contradict its support for Dotcom’s prosecution?
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