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Anna Fifield

Reporter · NZ

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Sep 24, 2026
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Jul 13, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Anna Fifield

    Anna Fifield: Whoever the new UN secretary-general is will take on an impossible job (opens the original)

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    Relevant but impotent: The UN General Assembly Hall. Photo / Getty Images When I was a university student in the mid-1990s, I took part in a debate with the moot, “The United Nations is a paper tiger.” This was around the time of two of the UN’s biggest failures: the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. Even back then, I remember it being a challenge to argue that the UN had real teeth. Fast forward to today, as the UN is choosing a new secretary-general, and it’s

  2. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Anna Fifield

    Maga, Taco or Fafo: Which four-letter acronym best applies now to Donald Trump (opens the original)

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    Donald Trump: Fafo-ing with global implications. Photo Getty Images The Celebrity Apprentice showman and commander-in-chief certainly lends himself to The Four Letter Acronym, or TFLA. There’s the original Maga, or Make America Great Again, the backward-looking populist dog whistle that helped get Donald Trump elected twice. There’s the one he detests: Taco, or Trump Always Chickens Out, a neat encapsulation of his tendency to make outrageous threats then renege on them. It was initially coined

  3. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · Anna Fifield

    Anna Fifield: How do we convince women to have more babies? (opens the original)

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    Pile up: Baby buggies go begging as fewer children are born in Hong Kong. Photo / Getty Images How do we convince women to have more babies? It’s a question being asked by many governments around the world, but especially in the big economies of East Asia: South Korea has the world’s lowest fertility rate, at 0.8 babies per woman – well below the replacement rate of 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population. The fertility crisis has become so severe that when the latest school year began, 200 s

  4. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Anna Fifield

    How Japan’s “Iron Lady” is standing up to China (opens the original)

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    Sanae Takaichi: Japan’s recently elected PM is riding a wave of popular support. Photo / Getty Images When it comes to the great power competition that’s threatening the precarious balance in the Asia-Pacific region, most countries are hedging their bets. The guiding principle seems to be: try not to antagonise China and hope the Trump administration ignores you. Not so with Japan, which is undergoing an extraordinary transformation under Sanae Takaichi, a security hawk who idolises Margaret Tha

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