Gordon Campbell on our unthinking readiness to confront China
Other countries regard trade deals as an adjunct of diplomacy and defence and proceed accordingly.
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Gordon Campbell on our latest trade pact dealings, and the mental health review
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.
Gordon Campbell on the TPP outcome, and the Hobbit law
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.
Gordon Campbell on Ardern’s trade battles at APEC
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.
New Eyes on Trade
David Parker needs to continue how he has started
Across the generational divide in politics
For some people, words like ‘tax’ and ‘regulation’ and ‘government intervention’ are fighting talk.
Gordon Campbell on the US bailing out on climate change
Naturally, Trump has framed his decision as a patriotic duty. Yet the withdrawal will do next to nothing to restore American jobs and communities.
Gordon Campbell on dealing with Japan over the TPP
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.
Gordon Campbell on Peter Thiel’s bid for citizenship
So we now we know how much it costs to buy New Zealand citizenship.
Gordon Campbell on child poverty, and John Coltrane
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.”
Gordon Campbell on our posturing at the UN
New Zealand is currently chairing the 15 person Security Council for the last time during our two year term on the Council.
Gordon Campbell on the RCEP trade deal and other entanglements
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.