Diplomacy

Mexico and New Zealand first began bilateral relations in 1973. 50 years on, what does this connection mean to both the diaspora living here in New Zealand and the for Mexico?  Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

How is Vladimir Putin using the case of a jailed American basketball superstar to his advantage, amid the ongoing war in Ukraine? Audio

Taiwan is a country with a complicated past, a complicated present and, in all likelihood, a complicated future. What happens next as tensions with China escalate? Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's high-profile trip to the United States is coming to an end. The Detail asks, what's in it for New Zealand, what's in it for the US, and where to next for the… Audio

At the turn of the millennium, the Timorese people voted for independence from Indonesia. Twenty years on, The Detail talks to New Zealanders who played a part in building a new democracy.   Audio

This week on The Detail we've tackled New Zealand's "complex and convoluted" extradition laws and the looming threat of Long Covid in the employment sphere - and much more. Whakarongo mai to any… Audio

There have been calls for New Zealand to expel Russia's ambassador in response to the war in Ukraine. But is that the right diplomatic step to take? Audio

Peter Hamilton's 35 years as a diplomat have him convinced that to grow as a nation, New Zealand must become a republic.  Audio, Gallery

Two books track an assertive China as it projects diplomatic and military power across the globe.

Last week a comically overwrought ad for Australia’s 60 Minutes TV show hit headlines here, promoting an item suggesting ‘New Xi-land’ had gone soft in China. It aired across the ditch on TV this… Audio

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney joins Kathryn to talk about fears of an escalation in conflict between Russia and Ukraine, major political groups in the European Parliament demanding an… Audio

The Australian media’s last news journalists in China quit the country in a hurry this week. For the first time in nearly 50 years there’s no-one from across the ditch covering this critical country -… Audio

Five New Zealand MPs travelled through Tonga and Fiji on a Speaker-led delegation. This is a six part series following the group to find out what they do and why 

Will the competition between China and the US inevitably lead to military conflict?

Jacinda Ardern - and her family - attracted plenty of attention at the UN in New York this week. She was even cast as the antidote to Trumpism by some. But did the media mistake exposure and… Video, Audio

Our nation's place in the world is explored by four experts in international relations: Professor Tony Ballantyne, Dr Marcelle Dawson and Professor Robert Patman from Otago University; along with… Audio