China Business Summit

China Business Summit 2023: Reconnecting with a changing China

Reconnecting with a changing China New Zealand businesses have set a goal to reconnect with China after the lengthy disruptions due to the Covid pandemic. Renewing and sustaining our trading and business links with our largest trading partner is important, but, so too, recognising and adapting to fast-moving changes in the Chinese commercial environment – including with consumer behaviour and …

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China Business Summit 2022: A Balancing Act

A Balancing Act On Monday, August 1, 2022 – NZINC. and the Auckland Business Chamber presented the China Business Summit: A Balancing Act. It explored a business and political perspective on the landscape for New Zealand businesses in China and put forward strategies for navigating through disruptive times. It is notable that New Zealand’s trade with China and Chinese investment in …

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China Business Summit: 2021

The New China Paradigm The China Business Summit was jointly presented by NZ INC. and Auckland Business Chamber. The Summit was held on Monday 3 May 2021 at The Cordis Hotel, Auckland. A year on since the start of the pandemic, the world was facing growing challenges that would require complex strategic questions to be traversed.  A new US Administration, …

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New Zealand’s relationship with China remains strong despite geopolitical tension

Former New Zealand Prime Ministers Sir John Key and Helen Clark back current government’s position of open and honest dialogue with China, reports Graham Skellern The seventh China Business Summit in Auckland – jointly presented by NZ INC. and Auckland Business Chamber – carried the beguiling theme of “The New China Paradigm.” In a full house of 500 delegates, it didn’t …

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Geoffrey Miller: Something for everyone in Ardern’s speech on China

Jacinda Ardern’s speech at the China Business Summit was a crowd-pleaser. Geoffrey Miller explains its role in the “rebalancing” of New Zealand’s orientation to China and the West. For critics who believed she had gone soft on China, Jacinda Ardern’s line that differences between China and New Zealand were becoming “harder to reconcile” will be interpreted as tough talk. They will see …

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Geoffrey Miller: New analysis of Nanaia Mahuta’s statements offers clues to her foreign policy agenda

A new analysis by the Democracy Project of Nanaia Mahuta’s public statements and tweets over the past six months reveals some intriguing initial insights into her foreign policy agenda. By the end of Wednesday this week, Nanaia Mahuta had made 31 formal statements or speeches on foreign affairs in her time as minister. On Twitter, she had published 85 original tweets (i.e. excluding retweets …

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China Business Summit: 2012

Time to Act By 2020 China will be the world’s largest economy and while it’s already New Zealand’s second largest trading partner, there is scope for far more benefit for New Zealand business. The Auckland Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with NZ INC Ltd, held the inaugural China Business Summit in Auckland on October 3 –  aimed to galvanise businesses …

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China Business Summit: 2013

A Wake-Up Call The second China Business Summit, hosted by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and NZ Inc Ltd, was held on the 16 October 2013, at the Langham Hotel, Auckland. The focus of the 2013 summit was on how New Zealand could lift its game in the wake of the Fonterra botulism scare, and on the changing China business …

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2015: Game Changers

Game Changers The China Business Summit was jointly presented by NZ INC. and Auckland Business Chamber. The Summit was held on Monday November 9, 2015 at The CORDIS Hotel, Auckland. The summit looked at the New Zealand and Chinese Government’s goal to increase bilateral trade with China to $30bn by 2020 and the controversial issue of the Government’s rejection of …

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China Business Summit: 2020

Covid-19 – The Recovery The China Business Summit was jointly presented by NZ INC. and Auckland Business Chamber. The Summit was held on Monday July 20, 2020 at The CORDIS Hotel, Auckland. 2020 was the time for New Zealand business to step up trade with our largest trading partner, China, as we started to put the disruption of the Covid-19 …

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