He is writing from an American perspective, but the same is true from our view in New Zealand. This week, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said New Zealand would not be joining Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza “in its current form”. There is, of course, nothing for New Zealand to gain by admonishing Trump’s idea. We have been lucky enough to have lived in a post-Cold War world where there was just one true superpower. And with it the rules-based order that accompanied it, first established after World War II.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 31, 2026 22:04 UTC