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This podcast is a recording of the webinar launching our report “Resuming Normal Service? Assessing future prospects for New Zealand-China services trade”, jointly held with the North Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence. It includes an exclusive briefing by the report author and a discussion featuring services trade experts, moderated by the Executive Director of the New Zealand China Council. The questions discussed include: Will trade in established services sectors again be an important part of overall bilateral trade with scope for future recovery and expansion? Are there new sectors that so far remain under-explored? What are the barriers and challenges that will need to be overcome for services sectors to reach their full potential?

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China took place recently in Beijing. The pivotal five-yearly event in China’s political calendar drew global interest. But beyond the media headlines, what were the key outcomes of the Congress and how could these affect China’s policy directions and New Zealand’s future engagement with China?

In this podcast, Jason Young, Associate Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at the Victoria University of Wellington, discusses these issues with our Council’s Executive Director Alistair Crozier.

This week is New Zealand Chinese Language Week. We sat down with our Council members Kiri Nathan, founder of her eponymous clothing brand Kiri Nathan Limited, and Mark Tanner, Founder and Managing Director of Shanghai based market strategy and research agency China Skinny, to explore their own Chinese language journeys.

In this podcast you will hear how two New Zealanders have tackled learning and using their Chinese language. Kiri also shares how she has gained more understanding and respect of different cultures through learning Te Reo Māori and Chinese.

In late April the New Zealand China Council released a report commissioned from Sense Partners, “In Perspective: The New Zealand-China Trade and Business Relationship 2022 Update”. Amongst other findings, the report confirmed that China’s share of New Zealand’s global goods exports reached 32.6% in 2021.

How we assess this situation and what it means for our exporters were the key themes of a webinar marking the launch of the report. The webinar included a briefing by report author John Ballingall, and a discussion with Andy Wotton, Chief Operating Officer at Kono, and Simon Tucker, Fonterra’s Director Global Sustainability, Stakeholder Affairs and Trade, moderated by Council Executive Director Alistair Crozier.

This podcast is a recording of the webinar, which was jointly hosted by the Council and the North Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence.

The Southern Link places New Zealand in the middle of a global value chain connecting Asia and South America, generating growth in trade, tourism and export opportunities.

Transiting via New Zealand offers the shortest air route between many major cities on the two continents, along with time zone advantages and efficient hubbing and servicing.

The NZCC commissioned a report on the Southern Link to quantify the Link’s economic benefits, and identify New Zealand's advantages and the challenges we will need to overcome to harness this opportunity.

In this podcast, we discuss the findings with report author Chris Nixon - NZIER Principal Economist, Lionel Berte - Head of Asia Pacific for Asendia (an international mail joint venture between French La Poste and Swiss Post), Steve Jones - NZTE’s Regional Director for Latin America, and Justin Watson - Christchurch Airport’s Chief Aeronautical and Commercial Officer.

A year on, we reconnect with the education sector to discuss the impact of Covid-19. Our guests, Derek McCormack (Vice Chancellor - AUT), Danny Chan (Co-founder - ACG and Director - UP Education) and Ainslie Moore (Deputy Director – International, Auckland University) discuss the impact of Covid-19 on their institutions, explain how they have pivoted, how competitors have fared, and the next steps New Zealand needs to take to re-charge the sector.