2024 China Media Visit

2024 CHINA MEDIA VISIT: BRUCE MUNRO AND SAM SACHDEVA

In June 2024 the New Zealand China Council worked with the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) to enable New Zealand journalists Bruce Munro (Otago Daily Times) and Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom) to make a media research visit to China for one week. The following articles contain their reflections and perspectives after 6 days travelling to Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou.

21st August 2024

A Cure for the future

This article by Bruce Munro was originally published on odt.co.nz on 18 Aug 2024. University of Otago’s Prof Ping Liu has been researching ways to detect and treat children whose… Read More

9th August 2024

Shanghai Shanglow

This article by Bruce Munro was originally published on odt.co.nz on 3 Aug 2024. A century ago, Shanghai was the thrumming hub of jazz in Asia.  Bruce Munro recently spent time in the Pearl of the… Read More

1st August 2024

China’s green economy navigates speed bumps

This article by Sam Sachdeva was originally published on newsroom.co.nz on 31 July 2024. Cover Photo: Getty Images. EVs on the streets of China are easily spotted, thanks to their green licence plates.  As China… Read More

25th July 2024

The view from Beijing

This article by Bruce Munro was originally published on odt.co.nz on 20 July 2024. Is China friend or foe? Recently returned from a trip to China that gave unusual access to influential foreign affairs experts,… Read More

21st July 2024

Can China’s ‘painful transition’ succeed?

This article by Sam Sachdeva was originally published on newsroom.co.nz on 21 July 2024. Cover Photo: Sam Sachdeva. With China’s economy hitting headwinds, businesses – including those in NZ – are cautiously… Read More

11th July 2024

Presence in China key to successful trade

This article by Bruce Munro was originally published on odt.co.nz on 11 July 2024. Silver Fern Farms chief transformation officer Matt Ballard, pictured near the company’s Shanghai offices, says New Zealand companies will not… Read More

7th July 2024

We are family

This article by Bruce Munro was originally published on odt.co.nz on 7 July 2024. Anti-clockwise from above: Dunedin mayor Richard Walls (left) and Shanghai Mayor Huang Ju sign the Dunedin-Shanghai sister city agreement, October 21,… Read More