{"id":35865,"date":"2021-08-25T10:56:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T01:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/25\/new-zealands-stance-on-peoples-vaccine-for-covid-undermines-its-principled-reputation"},"modified":"2021-08-25T10:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T01:56:50","slug":"new-zealands-stance-on-peoples-vaccine-for-covid-undermines-its-principled-reputation-max-harris-and-phoebe-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35865","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s stance on \u2018people\u2019s vaccine\u2019 for Covid undermines its principled reputation | Max Harris and Phoebe Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly released documents show government backed a vaccine patent waiver only after the US changed its position<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many New Zealanders like to think of their government as a principled actor in international affairs. Discussions of New Zealand\u2019s role in foreign policy in recent years often laud New Zealand\u2019s nuclear-free stance in the 1980s. There is widespread pride in New Zealand\u2019s \u201cindependent foreign policy\u201d, including its decision not to go to war in Iraq in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>But the story of New Zealand\u2019s role in the world, historically and today, is much more complex than these cliches would suggest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/covid-19-coronavirus-property-rights-trumped-pleas-from-the-poor-for-cheap-vaccines\/4E4IQOWS7QWMNZQLJ5WIIVIHUU\/\">Documents just released<\/a> under the Official Information Act provide another example of a murkier world of New Zealand foreign policy decision-making.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/25\/new-zealands-stance-on-peoples-vaccine-for-covid-undermines-its-principled-reputation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly released documents show government backed a vaccine patent waiver only after the US changed its positionSee all our coronavirus coverageMany New Zealanders like to think of their government as a principled actor in international affairs. Discussi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35866,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865\/revisions\/35866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}