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Tony Fiddis Graduates with a Master’s Degree from Peking University
14/01/2019 - The New Zealand Centre at Peking University is proud to announce that the former Centre intern Tony Colin Adair Fiddis graduated with a Master’s degree in International Studies from Peking University in July 2018.
In July 2018 Tony Colin Adair Fiddis graduated from the School of International Studies with a Master’s degree in international relation. His MA thesis is entitled “New Zealand’s China Trade Liberalization Policy”, which is a study of how New Zealand has made it possible to enjoy an economic relationship with China closer and relatively more liberalized than any other western developed economies for a long period of time. His thesis intends to examine through an established lens of small state behavior how and why New Zealand as a small trading state has achieved this degree of trade liberation with China. As the main point, this thesis argues that New Zealand insightfully considered China a potential trade partner with a huge market critical to New Zealand as early as the late 1970s when China was just implementing the reform and opening-up policy, and then New Zealand policy makers rightly made the trade policy and foreign policy of building up a healthy and strong political relationship on mutual respect as a prerequisite to meaningful economic engagement and trade liberalization. The thesis also stresses that a key foreign policy objective should maintain a rule-based world order that supports international laws, institutions and free trade. With respect to the future of New Zealand-China relation, the thesis also discusses the significance of New Zealand’s management of the strategic triangle with China and the USA, which is critical to maintaining and advancing New Zealand’s trade with China and the wider and better political relation that supports it.
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