Long story short: Aotearoa-NZ now has to make some difficult and probably expensive decisions about how we work and trade with China and the United States, our two largest trading partners. That’s because Donald Trump just overturned 80 years of certainty about how the US deals with and protects the countries it fought with in World War Two and the Cold War to beat a fascist dictatorship and contain two communist dictatorships.
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The tectonic plates under global geopolitics just shifted
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