Independent New Zealand journalist and foreign affairs analyst, via the @washingtonpost and @financialtimes.
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We're talking NZ election and foreign policy at 9am NZT on Wednesday 👇
Join @CharlesEdel, @davidcapie, @annafifield, and @AnnaPowles at 4pm ET on October 27 to discuss the key political actors shaping New Zealand's election and the potential national and foreign policy implications of the outcome.
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Brazil is voting, New Zealanders can start voting, Israelis are getting ready to vote. Here’s my guide to the week ahead, with some reading about AI and tech broligarchs
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Thanks to @annafifield for the good conversation
about the Pacific Island Forum, and 🇺🇸 policy in the region. Good framing from @SamSachdevaNZ on the larger dynamics at play.
Read / watch the whole thing 👇
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Winston Peters is great at forging personal relationships — but has that advanced New Zealand's national interest? And will they endure after he’s no longer foreign minister?
My first magazine-style reported piece exclusively on Substack (free to read)
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Purple Mountain Observatory, a research institution with links to the Chinese Communist Party and that is particularly interested in Antarctica, was found last year trying to install ground-based space infrastructure in New Zealand. My report: annafifieldnz.substack.com/p…
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.@samchetwin, Senior Fellow at Asia Society's @USChinaCenter, recently joined @annafifield on @radionz's The Detail podcast to discuss America's changing shape under President Trump, China's expanding global role under Xi Jinping, and how small- and medium-sized countries should navigate these turbulent times. 🎧 Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
SCOOP: US ‘Secretary of War’ Pete Hegseth says New Zealand isn’t spending enough on defence, that 3.5 percent of GDP is "the new global norm."
Here’s his answer to my question at the Shangri-La Dialogue:
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This was an insightful - and sobering - conversation with @ksadjadpour about what Iran wants, what Trump wants, and how we’ll likely end up with a much more hardline regime in Tehran.
Video and summary here:
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In just under an hour, I’ll be going live with Edward Luce of the Financial Times to talk about Trump’s strategy (a generous word) on Iran, his mental fitness for office, and how small countries like ours should be approaching the capricious president.
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Thanks everyone who signed up to Between Giants, my Substack newsletter about New Zealand's place in the world, this past week. You helped me earn this shiny badge (with my name on it not once but twice!)
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I'm thrilled to be joining @csis.org as a non-resident fellow in the Australia team. I will add to the excellent work they're doing on New Zealand geopolitics and the U.S.–New Zealand partnership.
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Today I'm launching Between Giants, a newsletter exploring the global forces shaping New Zealand’s future and what we can - and should - do about it. I hope you'll consider signing up.
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So many have given to The Post Guild’s fundraising effort, and we are floored. But we also ask you to consider supporting the fundraiser for our international staff and staff in our bureaus who aren’t Guild eligible. They are absolutely vital to coverage. gofund.me/a325666b6
Mike is a supremely talented journalist, a beautiful writer who brought Australia in all its dimensions alive for our readers. Selfishly, I would love to keep him in Sydney so I can keep reading him. Australian editors please take note!
It was an honor to be @washingtonpost's first Sydney bureau chief. Unfortunately, I'm also the last. The paper is shrinking foreign coverage. I've lost my job. Worse, millions of readers will lose my colleagues' brilliant coverage. At a time of tumult, we need more info, not less
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I wake up every morning trying to scoop the NYT, not praise it. But wanted to thank so many great reporters — @CAKitchener @amarimow @SherylNYT among them — who I spotted holding signs like this in front of Post headquarters today.
(Maybe the NYT is ok after all.)
Christian is a brilliant analyst and thinker about China, with phenomenal Chinese. I learned so much from him while having the honour of being his editor.
This puzzling world needs his insights more than ever.
Shibani’s final story for the Post is a perfect example of her journalism: Revelatory, surprising, beautifully told. A loss to the readers of the Post but she will be a huge gain for another lucky publication
I am heartbroken at the hollowing out of an institution I so deeply loved, and for my colleagues, who deserve so much better. I didn't know it at the time, but my last story for the Post published today, on a meth and public health crisis in Fiji
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As Katrina’s editor, I was constantly wowed by her smart ideas, her tenacity and her astounding thoroughness. And she’s a lovely person. I’m already envious of whoever gets to work with her next
