How can New Zealand claim to have an independent foreign policy when it won’t even criticise America’s assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian leader?
The furthest foreign minister Winston...
By Keith Locke
Why are we still looking to America first when it comes to our decisions on which countries to engage with, asks former MP Keith Locke.
Britain’s decision to...
The Covid-19 crisis is shaking up our thinking in a number of areas, not least on foreign policy.In the 1980s we were excluded from the Anzus alliance for daring...
The article below appeared on the Daily Blog on 2 September 2020
Most New Zealanders don’t trust Donald Trump. By and large they oppose his “America First” stance, which...
By Keith Locke
The following article was published in The Daily Blog, 20 October 2020
There has been much discussion about how the Greens should position themselves now they are not...
The following article was published on the Daily Blog on 25 November 2020.
By Keith Locke
It’s good to see New Zealand criticising China for undermining democracy in Hong Kong, but...
This article was published by Spinoff on 22 December 2020
By Keith Locke
The weakness of the royal commission report is that it treats Islamist extremist terrorism and extreme right white...