Learning to make a difference: The New Zealand-China education relationship and its impacts
Currently over 33% of New Zealand’s international students are from China, totaling almost 30,000 students in 2024. The lifelong connections these links create have helped to fuel the bilateral relat...
9 Apr 49min
Tastes of Two Worlds – China’s Food Sector from a kiwi entrepreneur’s perspective
What does it take to build a food brand in one of the world’s fastest-changing markets? What food trends are shaping Chinese consumer choices in 2025? How are consumers responding to sustainability wh...
15 Jul 202551min
China’s ‘Two Sessions’ 2025 Signals to Watch
Are China’s annual ‘Two Sessions’ (known in Chinese as ‘lianghui’) in early March the world’s largest political meetings you didn’t hear about? We’re back again for a discussion of these critical pol...
20 Mar 202540min
Te hono a te ao Māori ki a Haina: Māori approaches to engagement with China past, present, future
In February 2025, we launched our latest research report: Te hono a te ao Māori ki a Haina: Māori approaches to engagement with China past, present, future. Hear from the report authors and other r...
6 Mar 202550min
Bridging Cultures: Navigating the study of Chinese languages and Te Reo Māori
This September in Aotearoa New Zealand, we celebrate two special weeks: Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (14–21 Sept), marking the 52nd anniversary of the Māori Language Petition on Saturday 14th, and New Zeala...
18 Sep 202453min
The big China issues of 2024: An Australian perspective
Like New Zealand, Australia is also tracking China’s economy closely, as well as grappling with increasingly complex regional geopolitics. It’s always helpful for us to swap notes, especially with an...
15 Aug 202444min
Sourcing from the world’s factory: Our import relationship with China
China is New Zealand’s largest source of imports, whether ready for consumption under NZ or increasingly well-known Chinese brands, or providing materials and components for our domestic manufacturing...
9 Jul 202445min
