China

Seizing opportunities amid global uncertainties On Friday, July 18 2025, NZ INC and the Auckland Business Chamber presented the China Business Summit, the premier platform for exploring the economic, commercial and political dimensions of the New Zealand-China relationship. Despite global headwinds, our trade with China remains resilient. In the year to December 2024, New Zealand exported nearly NZ$18 billion in …

A new era Now in its third year, this one-day Summit took place just weeks after the highly anticipated US Presidential election, a decisive moment in history that saw Donald Trump once again headed to the White House. This timing offered an unparalleled opportunity to analyse and comprehend the immediate implications of the re-election of President Trump on New Zealand-United …

Navigating Today’s China On Monday, May 20, 2024, NZ INC and the Auckland Business Chamber presented the China Business Summit, the premier platform for exploring New Zealand-China economic, commercial, and political relations. Despite ongoing challenges, New Zealand’s trade with China remains strong. Two-way trade reached nearly NZ$38 billion in the year ending December 2023, and China accounted for nearly 22% …

Accelerating Momentum Accelerating momentum requires New Zealand to step up the level of ambition at both governmental and business level, and focus on and leverage fast-growing opportunities with the United States as that country itself undergoes transformative change. The U.S. is New Zealand’s third-largest individual trading partner and a significant growing source of foreign direct investment, innovation, research and tourism. In …

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 …

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 …

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 …

John Blaxland, Australian National University Talk of war has become louder in recent days, but the “drumbeat” has been heard for some time now as China’s military capabilities have grown. China does not want war, at least not yet. It’s playing the long game and its evident intentions have become more unnerving. Scholars like Brendan Taylor have identified four flash …

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 …