NZ's foreign policy blind spot is becoming harder to defend

NZ's foreign policy blind spot is becoming harder to defend

Comment: If there was any optimism in the National-led coalition Government that its softly-softly approach toward the Trump administration could still work, the Iran war has surely laid that to rest. New Zealand’s diplomatic response to the outbreak of the Iran war on February 28 has been to neither explicitly support or condemn US/Israeli air strikes on Tehran. Nevertheless, the coalition’s policy of hedging has certainly tilted in favour of t…