{"id":38206,"date":"2021-10-21T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/21\/national-treasure-new-zealand-maori-haka-protected-in-trade-deal-with-uk"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:45:47","slug":"national-treasure-new-zealand-maori-haka-protected-in-trade-deal-with-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38206","title":{"rendered":"\u2018National treasure\u2019: New Zealand M\u0101ori haka protected in trade deal with UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional war dance, often performed by top sports teams, has been subject to controversial appropriation in the UK<\/p>\n<p>It may not be enough to prevent the dance being butchered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/czech-republic-dance-group-slammed-for-mock-haka\/64L2TG62I33BAIDRDFWGU33SMM\/\">by dance troupes, in TikToks<\/a> or at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/pleas-for-drunk-kiwis-to-abstain-from-haka-during-london-waitangi-day-pub-crawl\/KBA7VQVCRUNLEYBA47SSPC4ALU\/\">pub crawls<\/a>, but a historic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/oct\/20\/uk-strikes-trade-deal-with-new-zealand-but-it-may-add-nothing-to-gdp\">new UK-New Zealand free trade deal<\/a> includes commitments from the UK to protect New Zealand\u2019s iconic haka, Ka Mate.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is expected to boost New Zealand\u2019s GDP by $970m, and eventually lift tariffs on all its exports to the UK. But its provisions extend beyond the economic: unusually, it also notes \u201ca commitment by the UK to cooperate with New Zealand to identify appropriate ways to advance recognition and protection of the haka Ka Mate &#8230; [and] acknowledge Ng\u0101ti Toa Rangatira\u2019s [the leaders of Ng\u0101ti Toa tribe\u2019s] guardianship of the haka\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/21\/national-treasure-new-zealand-maori-haka-protected-in-trade-deal-with-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional war dance, often performed by top sports teams, has been subject to controversial appropriation in the UKIt may not be enough to prevent the dance being butchered by dance troupes, in TikToks or at pub crawls, but a historic new UK-New Zeal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,557,56,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-international-trade","category-new-zealand","category-uk-news","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\/38206","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38207,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38206\/revisions\/38207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}