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The Prime Minister's major foreign policy speech has been seen as a softening of her stance towards Beijing by Chinese state media. Jacinda Ardern spoke to the Lowy Institute in Sydney on Thursday about the three principles that underpin New Zealand's independent foreign policy and how that's managed in an increasingly complex geopolitical environment. She spent much of her speech considering the principle of 'place', which Ardern said for New Zealand means the Pacific. Echoing comments she's made in other recent foreign policy addresses , the Prime Minister said it was important that the Pacific's security issues were resolved locally....
