Tag: Free trade
Ian Powell: Context of the ‘New Washington Consensus’ and China ‘threat’...
POLITICAL BYTES: By Ian Powell
There is a reported apparent rift within cabinet between Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Defence Minister Andrew Little over Aotearoa...
‘We can learn from Chinese diplomacy’, says Māori Pati critic of...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Newly elected Māori Pati president and columnist John Tamihere has launched a blistering criticism of New Zealand’s negative media attitude to...
Rights violations, censorship threaten EU-Vietnam deal, says watchdog
Vietnam’s human rights record could jeopardise an upcoming free trade deal with the European Union, according to Human Rights Watch. Asia-Pacific Journalism’s Jessica Marshall...
Joey Tau: Can the MSG bloc walk out on the PACER-Plus...
ANALYSIS: By Joey Tau in Suva
Vanuatu is the latest Melanesian state to express reservations on the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) agreement...
Barry Coates: PACER Plus – how the Pacific Way is being...
ANALYSIS: By Barry Coates
A new trade agreement has been concluded between some of the Pacific island nations and their richer neighbours -- Australia and...
Indonesia proposes ‘ASEAN-Pacific axis’ alternative to TPP and Chinese initiative
By Haeril Halim
Indonesia has proposed the setting up of a new trade bloc that could counterbalance the dominance of the United States and China.
The...
Barry Coates: The TPPA is dead. What next?
Barry Coates' speech in the New Zealand Parliament marking the end of the TPPA.
OPINION: By Barry Coates
There is a myth going around that President-elect...
PACER Plus not final – PNG says no, Fiji lukewarm, Vanuatu...
By Bob Makin in Port Vila
Some eight years of negotiations on the legal texts have gone into deciding what the Pacific free trade agreement...
NZ’s John Key to visit Europe, UK and Indonesia for trade...
Prime Minister John Key will visit the United Kingdom and Europe next week for a series of bilateral meetings and to attend Bastille Day...
India needs to counterbalance China in Asia Pacific, says president
President Pranab Mukherjee says India needs to make efforts to improve its presence in the Asia Pacific region to counterbalance the growing influence of...
Bryan Bruce: Staring into the face of the TPPA ‘shamocracy’
By Bryan Bruce
I spoke at my first parliamentary Select Committee hearing in New Zealand this week.
It was on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and...
TPPA prevents action on climate change, claim critics
Does the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership "free trade" agreement between Pacific Rim nations fail to address “the most important issue of our time”? Dominic Pink...
