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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Topic

Global Trade Strategy

5 items · 5 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 5 May 2026

A Rabobank global strategist discusses global geopolitical trends and New Zealand's position within international trade and investment.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 2 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 2 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Mike Hosking mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 18 May 2026 17 May · 110s
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Sample framings

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.

mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

rebalancing against chinese economic dominance

Full Show Podcast: 18 May 2026
17 May
beehive Government / N-A

leveraging trade links to boost national prosperity

Western Bay of Plenty Deal signed to unlock long term growth
14 May
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How the public reacted

Social-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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