By Keith Locke
The following article was published on Newsroom on 23 June 2022
Keith Locke explains why the Prime Minister’s decision to attend the Nato Leaders meeting might make David...
This article was published in the Daily Blog on 1 April 2022
Every now and again there’s a scare story about China trying to establish a military base in the...
The following article was first published in the Daily Blog on 20 September 2021
There are multiple reasons for nuclear-free New Zealanders to be upset about Australia’s plan to acquire...
By Keith Locke
The following article was published in the Daily Blog on 4 September 2021
Our government has understandably been preoccupied with helping refugees leave Afghanistan. But now the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This piece was originally published on The Daily Blog.
Donald Trump came to power to “Make America Great Again” by asserting US economic and technological dominance over all other countries,...