Tag: Joe Biden
John Minto: Bucha – the Russian army’s Fallujah. Justice needed for...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The discovery of many civilian bodies lying dead in the Ukrainian city of Bucha this week has brought out more Western...
Assumptions vs facts – how the Julian Assange case confronts our...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Selwyn Manning in Auckland
The dilemma facing whistleblowers, journalists and publishers who risk it all to help the world’s people to become...
Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact
By RNZ Pacific
The chair of the Pacific Islands Forum has welcomed the re-entry of the United States to the Paris agreement over climate change.
Within...
Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world – America’s...
ANALYSIS: By Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham
Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path
Two weeks after the storming of...
As Joe Biden becomes president, US still reels from deadly consequences...
ANALYSIS: By Jennifer S. Hunt, Australian National University
Every four years on January 20, the US exercises a key tenant of democratic government: the peaceful...
Impeaching Trump a second time is a complex and politically risky...
ANALYSIS: By Markus Wagner, University of Wollongong
President Donald Trump is extremely unlikely to capitulate to pressure to resign in the final days of his...
Pacific US territory leaders denounce the storming of Capitol Hill
By RNZ Pacific
The governors of Pacific US territories the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and Guam have denounced the violent protests in US Congress.
In...
Bryan Bruce: The hope that arises in spite of the chaotic...
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce
On Wednesday, from behind a wall of bulletproof glass, outgoing US President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters to...
‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’ – behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming...
ANALYSIS: By David Smith, University of Sydney
After weeks of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud and other improprieties costing him the presidential...
Are US and Iran headed for a military showdown before Trump...
ANALYSIS: By Clive Williams, Australian National University
Tensions are running high in the Middle East in the waning days of the Trump administration.
Over the weekend,...
NZ’s Ardern seeks Biden leadership on climate change, global issues
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is important for New Zealand to have tight connections with the US on big global issues...
Fiji’s Bainimarama first world leader to congratulate Biden – too early
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Fiji's Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama is reported to have become the first world leader to publicly congratulate US President-elect Joe Biden...
With re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in...
ANALYSIS: By Sarah John, Flinders University
Facing the gradual erosion of early leads in several battleground states — and increasingly likely defeat in the presidential...
Joe Biden headed for narrow victory in US presidential election
ANALYSIS: By Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
Joe Biden is now poised to win the US presidency. The mail-in votes in Wisconsin and Michigan have...
Nightmare ‘haunts US dream’, says leading NZ newspaper
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A leading New Zealand newspaper has branded the knife-edge US presidential election as a "nightmare" scenario in response to fears of...
Nik Dirga: The one word that really matters for US election...
OPINION: By Nik Dirga
I conducted a highly scientific study among a handful of my Facebook friends back home in America this week, asking them...