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Domestic checks and balances can be overridden if politically inconvenient to outside powers that have financial links to the country again, benefits China, which is one of Tonga's biggest creditors.
Cleo Paskal: How New Zealand's Petty Politics Undermines Stability and Security in the Pacific Cleo Paskal 2012
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Domestic checks and balances can be overridden if politically inconvenient to outside powers that have financial links to the country again, benefits China, which is one of Tonga's biggest creditors.
Cleo Paskal: How New Zealand's Petty Politics Undermines Stability and Security in the Pacific Cleo Paskal 2012
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Tonga's system of checks and balances was working.
Cleo Paskal: How New Zealand's Petty Politics Undermines Stability and Security in the Pacific Cleo Paskal 2012
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Had it not been for some fantastic last-ditch defending by Maxime Médard and Tonga's strange decision in apparently not going for four tries but settling for the victory – albeit a remarkable one – then the embarrassment could have been even worse.
Rugby World Cup 2011: Time for France to take leaf out of England's book | Shaun Edwards 2011
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Tonga's system of checks and balances was working.
Cleo Paskal: How New Zealand's Petty Politics Undermines Stability and Security in the Pacific Cleo Paskal 2012
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When I asked one member of Tonga's delegation to the Copenhagen climate conference what the country's negotiating position would be, I was told: "whatever China says it is, we owe them hundreds of millions of dollars."
Cleo Paskal: Why the West Is Losing the Pacific to China, the Arab League, and Just About Everyone Else Cleo Paskal 2010
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When I asked one member of Tonga's delegation to the Copenhagen climate conference what the country's negotiating position would be, I was told: "whatever China says it is, we owe them hundreds of millions of dollars."
Cleo Paskal: Why the West Is Losing the Pacific to China, the Arab League, and Just About Everyone Else Cleo Paskal 2010
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In 2005, for example, when Tonga signed on to the WTO, Oxfam's Phil Bloomer said: "The terms of Tonga's accession package are appalling", worse than any other than Armenia.
Cleo Paskal: Why the West Is Losing the Pacific to China, the Arab League, and Just About Everyone Else Cleo Paskal 2010
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In 2005, for example, when Tonga signed on to the WTO, Oxfam's Phil Bloomer said: "The terms of Tonga's accession package are appalling", worse than any other than Armenia.
Cleo Paskal: Why the West Is Losing the Pacific to China, the Arab League, and Just About Everyone Else Cleo Paskal 2010
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Oxfam NZ Executive Director, Barry Coates said: "To our shame, New Zealand, as a member of the working party that negotiated Tonga's accession, has participated in this process."
Cleo Paskal: Why the West Is Losing the Pacific to China, the Arab League, and Just About Everyone Else Cleo Paskal 2010
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