Can politicians cash the cheques they're writing on India?

Can politicians cash the cheques they're writing on India?
Chris Hipkins has promised to visit India within 100 days. (Image: Dileepa Fonseka/BusinessDesk)
Dileepa Fonseka
Politicians from New Zealand's two main parties were either doubling down on promises already released or repeating the bold ones already made at the India Business Summit in Auckland on Thursday.  The half-day summit was jointly hosted by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and Indian High Commission at the Cordis Hotel, with India’s minister of state for external affairs, Rajkumar Ranjan Singh – the equivalent of associate trade minister – attending too.   Prime minister and Labour leader Chris Hipkins was a...

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