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Going its own way in a messy world, New Zealand offers an alternate parable on China

Anthony Albanese avoids radical departures from a China narrative that aligns with the US, but Jacinda Ardern has a collectivist pitch

Ardern delivered her foreign policy speech at Lowy with the intelligent effervescence that has become her signature. This was a cameo in an Australian visit recalibrating trans-Tasman relations for the Ardern-Albanese era – which translates to more cooperation on climate policy, and, for New Zealanders in Australia, voting rights, a faster pathway to citizenship and increased protections against deportation.

Ardern’s alternative collectivist pitch was it’s OK to have a different view about the state of the world.It’s OK for regional actors to believe this is not 1937; to want to opt-out of great power competition, to avoid picking a side. At a basic level, she’s offering camaraderie by reinforcing the existing regional skepticism about the Washington/Canberra line.

It would be easy at this point to lapse into some binary declarations. Australia and New Zealand are fundamentally at odds. Ardern is defying Biden and Albanese.

Maybe there is a screaming argument playing out across the ditch. Perhaps Ardern and Albanese might come to blows at the Pacific Islands Forum next week.But I suspect Ardern’s alternate parable reflects the fact

New Zealanders view China similarly to the way Western Australians view China – predominantly as an export market. In Australia, there’s an east coast view of China, and a west coast one.

I would like to see NZ team up with WA and work together with China. We could create a Golden Triangle like bringing in Chinese tourists to WA onto NZ then maybe Antarctica or the South Pacific Islands.

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