Chief Executive #JohnLee meets visiting Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies of Singapore Heng Swee Keat news.gov.hk/eng/2024/04/20…

My comments on the final day of New Zealand foreign minister Winston Peters' visit to Washington are included in this 3-minute video report by Newshub's Mitch McCann: youtu.be/Npud_P1fMjc

Rodrigo Duterte to Global Times: 'We do not have any quarrel with China. We know that if it would come, it would come because of the Americans…The Americans are the ones pushing the Philippine government to go out there and find a quarrel.'
globaltimes.cn/page/202404/13…

Digging into Speaker Johnson--a staunch evangelical, and the other MAGA Christian nationalists blocking aid to Ukraine in the House, I discovered that Ukraine plays a role in their demented 'end times' world view 🧵

China calls out Philippines.

Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz will pay an official visit to China from April 14 to 16 at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning announced on Friday.

Carl Worker Marion Crawshaw An informed debate would be open about the economic risks, the likely extra costs in defence spending, and the likelihood of NZ forces being drawn into more deployments….

Public support for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet has fallen to 16.6% in April, a new low for the administration since its launch in October 2021, an opinion poll shows. jtim.es/3TO2J0q

India is clearly aligned with the U.S. rather than China. The true 'swing state' is Indonesia.

As the US looks to further develop the AUKUS security partnership, former PM Helen Clark is warning NZ is getting too close to Washington D.C. So what are her concerns?

Watch the former UN Development Programme administrator's live interview this Sunday at 9am on TVNZ+ & TVNZ1

Very well said by Dave.

Many of Yoon’a cheerleaders in DC have struck me as being deeply disconnected to how things actually are in 🇰🇷 and it’s one of the reasons I’ve stopped reading much of their work…

They ignored the polls over and over and promote policies few want here.

Helpful Aussie ally.

“A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness”.

On April 11, PM Kishida, who is visiting Washington, D.C., held a Japan-U.S.-Philippines Summit with the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States of America and H.E. Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., President of the Republic of the Philippines.
#US #Philippines

NZ foreign policy hijacked by a party representing only 6% of the electorate?

Audrey Young ⁦nzherald⁩: Peter’s/Blinken statement “suggests NZ is already embracing the prospect of engagement with #Aukus - without the public knowing what it involves & without Cabinet having agreed to it.” Who is running NZ foreign policy? nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/wi…

“Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told reporters this morning that his Government was going no further than Labour had gone last term, but Labour committed to only explore what Aukus II meant.”
Comment: Unbelievable! What is going on?

April 11 Red Sea Update

At approximately 1:00 p.m. (Sanaa time) on April 11, United States Central Command (CENTCOM) forces successfully engaged and destroyed one anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) launched over the Red Sea from Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist-controlled areas…

Winston Peters-Antony Blinken statement proves New Zealand is in the middle of a seismic foreign policy shift - Audrey Young nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/wi…

The Xi-Ma meeting came as Biden hosted Japan's Fumio Kishida and the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the White House, with Taiwan on the agenda, given Japan and the Philippines’ heavy U.S. military presence and their proximity to Taiwan.
wsj.com/world/china/xi…