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		<title>A bridge too far.</title>
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		<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>RNZ Interview: Paul Buchanan IVed On Radio New Zealand On An Investigation Into The GCSB</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/09/25/rnz-interview-paul-buchanan-ived-on-radio-new-zealand-on-an-investigation-into-the-gcsb/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[RNZ Interview: Paul Buchanan IVed On Radio New Zealand On An Investigation Into The GCSB RNZ Report: With Paul Buchanan &#8211; Security and Intelligence Analyst, and Nicky Hager &#8211; Investigative Journalist and Author, whose 1996 book &#8220;Secret Power &#8211; New Zealand&#8217;s role in the international spy network&#8221; detailed the surveillance system, ECHELON, used at the ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Radio Australia Interview: Paul Buchanan On US looks to NZ to help counter China</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week the United States&#8217; Defence Secretary Leon Panetta visited New Zealand after holding bilateral meetings with the People&#8217;s Republic of China and Japan. Panetta met with New Zealand&#8217;s Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman and announced how the US and NZ are progressing their military and defence ties. Panetta also raised how the US is willing ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: A Romney Foreign Policy and the Southwestern Pacific.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analytic Brief: A Romney Foreign Policy in the Southwestern Pacific. Analysis – By Dr. Paul G. Buchanan. Introduction: 36th Parallel Assessments Founding Partner Dr. Paul G. Buchanan has been traveling in the US for a month. He has had an opportunity to observe the US election campaign from both coasts, and in this brief discusses the ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Afghanistan: Beefing Up In Order To Leave</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan: Beefing Up In Order To Leave Analysis &#8211; By Dr Paul G. Buchanan. In the wake of the most recent NZDF deaths in Bamiyan Province, the New Zealand Prime Minister has decided to accelerate the timetable for withdrawal of NZDF from the Bamiyan Provincial Reconstruction Team to April 2013. After that the PRT will ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analysis: A different sort of BRIC (Australia in comparative perspective).</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analysis: A different type of BRIC (Australia in comparative perspective). In this installment of the 36th Parallel series of analytic briefs, the focus is on Australia compared to other rising middle powers, including three of the BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India. Analysis &#8211; By Dr. Paul G. Buchanan. Although it may irk the okkers, Australia can ]]></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>Assessment: Partners But Not Allies &#8211; New Zealand and the US Sign The Washington Declaration</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/06/27/assessment-brief-partners-allies-new-zealand-us-sign-the-washington-declaration/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Assessment: Partners But Not Allies &#8211; New Zealand and the US Sign The Washington Declaration Assessment/Analysis &#8211; By Dr Paul G. Buchanan. On June 20 New Zealand Defense Minister Jonathan Coleman and US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta signed the Washington Declaration, which specifies priority areas of cooperation between the militaries of both countries.The Washington Declaration ]]></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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		<title>Interview: Selwyn Manning IVs Labour&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Phil Goff On NZ&#8217;s UN Security Council Bid</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Selwyn Manning IVs Labour&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Phil Goff On NZ&#8217;s UN Security Council Bid Triangle TV, LiveNews.co.nz: Important Points &#8211; New Zealand&#8217;s former Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff reveals that Australia&#8217;s former PM Kevin Rudd, abandoned a pledge agreed in 2004 between Canada, New Zealand and Australia, that New Zealand would be next ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Implications Of New Zealand Signing A NATO Security Pact</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Implications Of New Zealand Signing A NATO Security Pact 95bFM’s The Wire – Recorded live on 7/06/12: Selwyn Manning &#038; Simon Maude discuss the implications of New Zealand signing a NATO security pact titled Individual Partnership Cooperation Programme (IPCP). Background: This week New Zealand Prime Minister ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 00:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analysis: New Zealand&#8217;s United Nations Security Council Bid. 36th Parallel Assessments &#8211; Analysis By Dr Paul G. Buchanan Introduction:On May 24, 2012the foreign ministers of the United States of America and New Zealand met for bilateral meetings after the conclusion of the NATO Summit in Chicago. Afghanistan, Syria and Myanmar were topics of discussion, but ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on the South China Sea Territorial Tensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 21:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on the South China Sea Territorial Tensions Analysis: Geopolitics and strategic balancing in the South China Sea. China has been asserting its territorial claims very aggressively and the United States and associated South East Asian countries have responded. Most recently China and the Philippines have clashed over the Scarborough ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Radio New Zealand&#8217;s Chris Laidlaw IVs Paul Buchanan on Drones Radio New Zealand intro: This week we hear from professor Noel Sharkey about the development of fully autonomous drones, blogger Yousef Aljamal about life under the drones in the Gaza strip, and defence analyst Paul Buchanan will talk us through the strategic implications of ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 18 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Timor Leste: Report – By Michael Bachelard in Dili &#8211; A military man recommended by the United Nations for criminal prosecution six years ago seems almost certain to become the new president of East Timor. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 12 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] South East Asia: The Philippines has sent a second ship to a stand-off with two Chinese ships in the South China Sea, even as both sides pledged diplomacy. A coast guard boat will join the ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: RNZ IVs Paul Buchanan On Whether Chinese Co Huawei is an ICT Security Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Radio New Zealand IVs Paul Buchanan On Whether Chinese Company Huawei is an ICT Security Risk RNZ Reported: &#8220;Huawei is supplying equipment to Chorus and 2Degrees, and working with Christchurch&#8217;s Enable Services and the central North Island&#8217;s Wel Networks as part of the Government&#8217;s ultra-fast broadband initiative. &#8220;The company operates in more than 100 ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Interview: Paul Buchanan &#038; Glenn Williams on Nuclear Tensions on the Korean Peninsula</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eye on the World: Paul Buchanan &#038; Glenn Williams on Nuclear Tensions on the Korean Peninsula 36th Parallel&#8217;s Dr Paul Buchanan is interviewed by KiwiFM&#8217;s Glenn Williams on this weeks nuclear non-proliferation summit in South Korea and what North Korea is attempting to achieve by its plan to launch a ballistic missile. Eye On The ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Paul Buchanan &#038; Glenn Williams On China, Pacific &#038; New Zealand&#8217;s Challenge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Paul Buchanan &#038; Glenn Williams On China, Pacific &#038; New Zealand&#8217;s Challenge Eye on the World 36th-Parallel&#8217;s Paul Buchanan is interviewed by KiwiFM&#8217;s Glenn Williams over China’s expansion and influence in the wider Pacific and how lax communications and loose talk between New Zealand&#8217;s National Party Member of Parliament John Hayes and New Zealand ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ABC/Radio Australia: Paul Buchanan On China&#8217;s Investment Strategy in the South/West Pacific</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ABC/Radio Australia: China has given the Cook Islands a grant of three million dollars. https://36th-parallel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PB-ABC-Radio-Australia-China-Cooks-02-03-2012.mp3 The no-strings-attached money will likely be put to the Cook&#8217;s National Sustainable Development Plan. It&#8217;s been warmly welcomed in the Cook Islands but it&#8217;s just the kind of intervention that has some Western powers worried about China&#8217;s intentions and growing ]]></description>
		
		
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