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		<title>Military Extortion as Coercive Diplomacy.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Source: Anonymous on X.com. The lethal theatre of the absurd that has been the Trump administration’s sabre rattling performances in the Central American basin over the last few months culminated with the military attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president and his wife in the early hours of Saturday morning, Caracas time. The ]]></description>
		
		
		
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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 PRC&#8217;s Two Level Game.</title>
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		<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>
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		<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>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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