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Article: Having our cake and eating it too: Stephen Jacobi looks at prospects for New Zealand's relationship with the United States.
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- New Zealand International Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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What's next for New Zealand's relationship with the United States? The question is an appropriate one at a time when the relationship seems--at long last--to be on a much firmer footing than it has for many years. Credit is due to the New Zealand government for relentlessly pursuing the goal of relationship-building with visits to Washington by Winston Peters in July 2006 and Prime Minister Helen Clark last March. Credit is also due to the US government for its reassessment of the relationship, initiated by Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill, and now seemingly endorsed at the highest level of the administration.
Others have played a part too. The National ...