This weekend on Newshub Nation:

Tensions in the Pacific as China offers a deal to island nations. Former Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters tells us why it could have been avoided.

National is rising in the polls but is it at the ACT Party’s expense? Leader David Seymour on his election 2023 plans starting with Tauranga.On The Pitch: National Police spokesperson Mark Mitchell says more guns in the right hands will keep them out of the wrong ones.

A line in the sand off the coast of Taiwan could see two world super power clashing , we cross live to ITV Asia Correspondent Debi Edwards in Beijing A teal wave has broken over Australian politics - and the independents could hold the balance of power. We ask new MP Kylea Tink on her plan to shake up politics across the ditch.

Then, dissecting the news of the week on our panel: Newshub Nation digital editor Finn Hogan, former National staffer Georgina Stylianou and Auckland University senior lecturer Dr Stephen Noakes.

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