- Watch full video belowThe resurgence of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan shows New Zealand cannot depend on the United States in the way it has in the past, an international affairs specialist says. "The fall of Kabul shows that it now falls to smaller states and middle powers to look past the United States," Professor Robert Patman told Global Insight. "We have to take more responsibility internationally to try to safe-guard the international rules-based order."

Source: Otago Daily Times August 19, 2021 03:45 UTC