The article reports on hopes that US President Trump may use diplomatic channels to secure the release of Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai, who is serving a 20-year sentence under China's national security law, amid broader tensions in US-China relations and concerns about political囚
How the framings classify across 5 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
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How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 6 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
Energy security, financial security, international security, social cohesion. These are the government's priorities for budget 2026. That Prime Minister Christopher Luxon laid out earlier this month. Finance Minister Nicola Willis says that this budget will lay out a clear plan where the country is now, where we're headed, and the road we'll take to get there. So what should we look out for? How does this position the coalition for the election? Will the spending be worth thousands of public sector jobs being cut to pay for it? Today on the front page, University of Otago honorary research fellow, Dr. Michael Swanson is with us for a pre-budget 2026 chat.
Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.
accused of undermining china's stance
Four MPs have been banned from China for visiting TaiwanSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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