When New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters met his Indian counterpart Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Australia this week, some New Zealand journalists were puzzled. Why would bilateral talks happen in a third country?

Such questions reveal more about the questioners than about modern diplomacy. In an interconnected world, it matters less where meetings occur than that they take place at all. The meeting’s context was the Raisina Down Under conference in Melbourne, hosted by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute – a conference with a big involvement of Australian politicians, both government and opposition.

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