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New Zealand ‘must never be seen as a proxy’, former PM Helen Clark warns

South China Morning Post 03 September 2026 6h ago
New Zealand ‘must never be seen as a proxy’, former PM Helen Clark warns
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Helen Clark spent nine years running New Zealand and eight more running the United Nations’ development arm. Now, the former prime minister has a warning for the country she once led: do not let the scramble for Pacific security deals crowd out its much-vaunted independent foreign policy tradition. Speaking to This Week in Asia in Singapore on Tuesday, Clark argued that Wellington’s recent flurry
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