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		<title>South America’s Strategic Paradox.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Summary Conventional wisdom believes that increased prosperity brings with it increased security. As individual, group and national material fortunes rise, domestic crime decreases and tensions ease between States. Yet, in South America improved macroeconomic indicators derived from increased trade within and from without the region have not followed convention. Not only has domestic insecurity increased, ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The return to Big Wars.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 03:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After the Cold War the consensus among Western military strategists was that the era of Big Wars, defined as peer conflict between large states with full spectrum military technologies, was at an end, at least for the foreseeable future. The strategic emphasis shifted to so-called &#8220;small wars&#8221; and low-intensity conflicts where asymmetric warfare would be ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The PRC&#8217;s Two Level Game.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2022/06/04/the-prcs-two-level-game/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Coming on the heels of the recently signed Solomon Islands-PRC bilateral economic and security agreement, the whirlwind tour of the Southwestern Pacific undertaken by PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi has generated much concern in Canberra, Washington DC and Wellington as well as in other Western capitals. Wang and the PRC delegation came to the Southwestern ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New Zealand&#8217;s foreign policy alignment.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2021/04/29/new-zealands-foreign-policy-alignment/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 03:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th Parallel offers periodic assessments of matters and issues in the news. In this assessment we look at the fallout to a recent speech on foreign policy by its new Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta and explain why the criticism directed at New Zealand over the content of the speech is unwarranted and misguided. &#160; A ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Chinese List.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2020/09/19/the-chinese-list/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 02:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; News that Zhenhua Data, an arm of China Zhenhua Electronics Group, a subsidiary of the military-connected China Electronic Information Industry Group (CETC), maintains a list of 800 New Zealanders on a “Overseas Key Information Database” that contains personal information on more than 2.4 million foreign individuals, has caused some consternation in Kiwi political circles. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A bridge too far.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2018/11/21/a-bridge-too-far/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Labour-led government in New Zealand has settled on a new mantra when it comes to addressing the US-China rivalry. It claims that New Zealand is ideally situated to become a bridge between the two great powers and an honest broker when it comes to their interaction with the Southwest Pacific. This follows the long-held ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Paul G. Buchanan interviewed on The Nation regarding potential Chinese cyber espionage and New Zealand&#8217;s ability to defend against it.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/10/14/paul-g-buchanan-interviewed-on-the-nation-regarding-potential-chinese-cyber-espionage-and-new-zealands-ability-to-defend-against-it/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paul G. Buchanan interviewed on The Nation regarding potential Chinese cyber espionage and New Zealand&#8217;s ability to defend against it. This week the US launched a fresh attack on Chinese telecommunication companies. A congressional committee issued a warning to companies in the US, saying Huawei and ZTE may be a front for Chinese spying, and ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Pacific Fibre Issue &#8211; Has The US Gone Too Far?</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/08/02/the-pacific-fibre-issue-has-the-us-gone-too-far/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Pacific Fibre Issue &#8211; Has The US Gone Too Far? Analysis &#8211; By Selwyn Manning. On Thursday morning Interest.co.nz&#8216;s Alex Tarrant reported that the Kiwi Pacific Fibre cable project was sunk by US fears about Chinese investment, and espionage. Interest.co.nz&#8216;s main contact was New Zealand-based invester Rod Drury who said: “It was made clear ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Washington Declaration</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/06/21/interview-95bfms-simon-maude-ivs-selwyn-manning-on-the-washington-declaration/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On New Zealand Signing the USA&#8217;s Washington Declaration Military Pact 95bFM The Wire Counter-Clockwise Bulletin &#8211; Recorded live on 21/06/12: Main Points &#8211; On Wednesday June 20, New Zealand&#8217;s Minister of Defence Jonathan Coleman met with the United States&#8217; secretary of defense Leon Panetta at the Pentagon in ]]></description>
		
		
		
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