New Zealand will not sign a Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement unless it removes tariffs on dairy products and allows the state-owned drug-buying agency to stay.

Washington can move in mysterious ways, but rarely more strangely than now: just why are Republicans so dead set on scuppering Susan Rice?

As John Key wraps up an important Burma visit, he talks to Herald Political Editor Audrey Young about what he's learned and seen.

Prime Minister John Key meets with Aung San Suu Kyi at Naypyitaw which is the capital of the South East Asian nation. Mr Key is the first New Zealand Prime Minister to visit the country.

John Key began the first visit of a New Zealand Prime Minister to Burma literally walking in Barack Obama's footsteps.

Key says no area off limits in trade talks and partners comfortable with NZ's agriculture stance.

Prime Minister John Key had an informal discussion with US President Barack Obama in Phnom Penh this morning and the issue of Kim Dotcom appears to have been discussed.

World leaders have gathered at the East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

President's Asia tour underscores foreign policy shift eastwards to counter China.

Prime Minister John Key is to arrive in Cambodia tonight where he will be able to congratulate President Barack Obama on his re-election.

I know shamefully little about really important geopolitical stuff such as the names of who wields power in China.

The United States was admitted to the East Asia Summit only last year, six years after the first summit.