Karen Smith
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🚨 IN JAPAN 🇯🇵 "Fuck Trump" banners are up and the message is simple: nobody is trying to fight any more proxy wars for Western billionaires. No more endless wars, no more neocolonial economic games, and no more bowing to Washington's establishment. Absolute solidarity with the Japanese people standing up for their sovereignty.







We offer our condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of United States Senator Lindsey Graham. Senator Graham was a good friend of New Zealand, whose distinguished career had a significant focus on world affairs - including developments in our region. -WP 🇺🇸 🤝 🇳🇿



Female students at a New Zealand high school were told to lengthen their skirts to knee level in order to “create a better work environment for male staff” & avoid distracting male teachers & students. bit.ly/1YvhkcB


We offer our condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of United States Senator Lindsey Graham. Senator Graham was a good friend of New Zealand, whose distinguished career had a significant focus on world affairs - including developments in our region. -WP 🇺🇸 🤝 🇳🇿


If you want people to work stop making them redundant you fucktard! You do realise your mass slash and burn to govt employees has had a knock on effect. These people spent money at retailers. Now look at the closures. Fucking dimwit! @dbseymour


A critical 35-minute meeting in Tokyo just completely backfired on Beijing's regional ambitions. Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters have finalized emergency security measures to defend a free and open Indo-Pacific. This urgent defense pivot comes right after the Chinese Communist Party conducted a highly provocative submarine-launched ballistic missile test directly into the Pacific. Instead of intimidating its neighbors, the reckless display of force is accelerating an unprecedented military alignment among frontline democracies. To build an unbreakable defense wall against regional overreach, Tokyo and Wellington are leveraging the "Indo-Pacific Four" framework. This elite alliance unites Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea as official global partners to integrate maritime intelligence and advanced logistics. At the same time, this meeting lays the groundwork for New Zealand to explore future integration with AUKUS, the high-stakes security partnership designed to counter the CCP's maritime expansion. By standardizing intelligence sharing and logistical support alongside allies like the US, these nations are making it impossible for a single authoritarian regime to choke off strategic global trade routes. mainichi.jp/english/articl…




