New Zealand benefits disproportionately from the trans-Tasman relationship so unpleasant policies sometimes have to be swallowed
While the epithets hurled by US, Russian and Chinese leaders at each other make world headlines, a little-noticed diplomatic spat is worsening between normally friendly neighbours Australia and New Zealand.
This is unexpected and unwanted. The two countries are arguably among the planet’s most closely interlinked. Their longstanding and intimate social, economic and inter-governmental ties are rivalled only by those of the US with Canada, the UK with Ireland, and France with Belgium.
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