Forget UK, North America — Asia is most important to New Zealanders, poll finds
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New Zealand’s affinity with Asia could be explained by similarities in cultures and values, says executive director of non-profit organisation that conducted the annual survey.

Some key takeaways from the Asia New Zealand report:

  • 80% feel it’s important for NZers to develop ties with Asia
  • 90% feel it’s at least somewhat important for NZ to invest in building partnerships with Asia, with 65% saying it’s more important than 5 years ago
  • 37% see China as a threat, in 3rd place behind Russia (72%, up 27 percentage points since last year) and North Korea (69%, up 5 ppt.). The rest are below 20%.
  • 63% are concerned about possible conflict over Taiwan

More key takeaways and the full report here on the Asia New Zealand Foundation’s website

RNZ has some less in-depth coverage of this too

  • BalpeenHammerEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “Why would anybody start a study to prove that?” You’re so close here to understand the inherent bias in this.

    I understand your bias for sure.

    And for the record, im not anti Asian like you are trying to force, im anti misinformation and bias.

    And have you proven that this is misinformation?

    But I wouldn’t say yes over Australia, America’s and Europe as they are our security partners and a big part of our trade.

    It looks like you didn’t even read the article. Nobody was asked to rank any country over another.

    Im not going to continue to debate bias and misinformation here as its not my job to educate you

    You should educate yourself.