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New Zealand-Samoa Diplomacy

8 items · 5 aliases · peaked week of 7 Jun 2026 · first seen 1 May 2026

Samoa’s Prime Minister advises New Zealand’s Christopher Luxon to disregard online criticism over his acquisition of a matai title.

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

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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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  • Phil Goff Cross Party Lines (audio) Beijing, Buried Emails and Telling America Where to Go 8 Jun · 121s
    Um, you know, the uh the the Secretary of Home Affairs is a British born uh, I think uh Caribbean, uh the leader of the uh the opposition is a is yeah, is uh is a British born Nigerian. So it doesn't matter what the the races, uh, if a person is culpable, regardless of race colour or crebe of creed of some crime, yeah, yeah, they deserve everything they've got coming to them. But to claim this is the result of mass migration is just a load of crap. And it's not for it's not for some bloody American politician to intrude their ideology into another country's internal affairs. And that really uh that really pisses uh the the UK off. And I get pissed off when Hexeth says we're freeloading. You know, I just remember my father, the bloody Yanks, they were late for the first world war, they were late for the second world war. They only came into it when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Um, I don't think New Zealand has anything to apologize for. I I do think we need to raise our our um our defense spending to the two percent of GDP, just simply so that we've got a credible defense force and we look after our people and give them the right equipment so we can send them off to do the good work they do around the world. But I don't want any bloody person from some other country, uh Secretary of Defense or whatever they might be telling New Zealand what to do. I mean, Mike Moore's favorite saying to the Americans is we might we might do anything that you might ask us, we won't do anything that you tell us, and I think that makes a lot of sense. Uh I I'm sick of these sort of people trying to tell other countries how to run their own affairs. If they were worried about people being murdered, why didn't they speak out about the two people that the ICE authorities killed in Minneapolis, effectively murdered innocent people that were no threat. Why don't they look at their own affairs and clean your own affairs up and not worry about what other countries are doing? There's my rave.
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emphasizes warm, longstanding cultural ties

Beijing, Buried Emails and Telling America Where to Go
8 Jun
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