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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>From failure, opportunity beckons.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration&#8217;s decision to withdraw the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a multinational trade and investment accord involving eleven Pacific Rim countries other than the US, is seen as a blow to hopes for a freer flow of goods and services in the Asia-Pacific Region. In this analytic brief we look at the potential opportunities presented ]]></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>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/09/24/radio-australia-interview-paul-buchanan-on-us-looks-to-nz-to-help-counter-china/</link>
		
		<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>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/08/23/afghanistan-beefing-up-in-order-to-leave/</link>
		
		<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>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>Fiji&#8217;s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/07/13/fijis-military-regime-deploys-more-personnel-to-un-ops-than-australia-canada-new-zealand-combined/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fiji&#8217;s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined Dispatch/Forecast &#8211; by Selwyn Manning. Since the 2006 Fiji coup Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama&#8217;s military-led government has remained fully engaged with the United Nations while incrementally increasing the number of troops and police it contributes to UN peacekeeping operations to ]]></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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		<title>Analysis: New Zealand&#8217;s United Nations Security Council Bid</title>
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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>Status of Forces Report Part 2: Military Professionalism in the South Pacific.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 03:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Status of Forces Report Part 2: Military Professionalism in the South Pacific. 36th Parallel Assessment Series – By Paul G. Buchanan Introduction: In Part One of the the Status of Forces series, 36th Parallel Assessments offered an overview of typologies of military forces and civil-military relations. Designed as an introduction to the subject for readers ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on the South China Sea Territorial Tensions</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/05/22/interview-glenn-williams-ivs-paul-buchanan-on-the-south-china-sea-territorial-tensions/</link>
		
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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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		<title>Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on the Obama vs Romney US Campaign</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/05/15/interview-glenn-williams-ivs-paul-buchanan-on-the-obama-vs-romney-us-campaign/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on the Obama vs Romney US Campaign Paul Buchanan discusses United States president Barack Obama&#8217;s message on gay marriage, the Republican Party&#8217;s Mitt Romney&#8217;s response, and the build up to the US election in November. The bottom line is social issues/cultural wars versus pocketbook issues.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Radio New Zealand&#8217;s Chris Laidlaw IVs Paul Buchanan on Drones</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/05/15/interview-radio-new-zealands-chris-laidlaw-ivs-paul-buchanan-on-drones/</link>
		
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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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		<title>Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on the Problems of Pulling Out of Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eye on the World: Paul Buchanan &#038; Glenn Williams on Afghanistan and the Problems Of Pulling Out 36th-Parallel.com&#8216;s Paul Buchanan joins Glenn Williams to discuss the problems New Zealand and Australia faces while preparing to pull soldiers out of Afghanistan. Paul Buchanan discusses how a recent visit to Afghanistan&#8217;s Bamiyan province by New Zealand&#8217;s Minister ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on the Summit of the Americas Talk-Fest</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/04/24/interview-glenn-williams-ivs-paul-buchanan-on-the-summit-of-the-americas-talk-fest/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on the Summit of the Americas Talk-Fest Eye On The World: 36th-Parallel.com&#8217;s Paul Buchanan talks to Glenn Williams about the failure of this year&#8217;s Summit of the Americas talk-fest, and how the countries of Latin America are exercising their independence and indifference against the USA. Eye On The World ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Weekly Analysis: Managing Corruption in the South Pacific</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/04/11/managing-corruption-in-the-south-pacific/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Weekly Analysis: Managing Corruption in the South Pacific Analysis and Forecast &#8211; By Dr. Paul G. Buchanan. Although it is unfortunate to say so, corruption is a major feature of South Pacific life. It is pervasive, endemic, often culturally rooted but now aggravated by the presence of external actors intent on securing material or political ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: NewsTalkZB&#8217;s Larry Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on Huawei Security Risk</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/03/30/interview-newstalkzbs-larry-williams-ivs-paul-buchanan-on-huawei-security-risk/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: NewsTalkZB&#8217;s Larry Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on Huawei Security Risk http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/audio/1203/PBLWNewsTalkZB29032012.mp3 36th Parallel&#8217;s Dr Paul Buchanan is interviewed by NewsTalkZB&#8217;s Larry Williams about the New Zealand Government entering into a deal with Chinese ICT hardware company Huawei, despite Australia and the United States believing Huawei is a front company for Chinese cyber-spies.]]></description>
		
		
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