Tuvalu disaster relief exercise shows a shift in New Zealand's aid strategy

Threatened ... Tuvalu politician Bikenibeu Paeniu faces the swells of the South Pacific on Funafuti. Photograph: Matthieu Paley/Corbis
He likened it to the landing of the Americans during the second world war when suddenly, as if the sea had changed colour, the island was swamped by white men in military uniforms. Some 67 years later, like hundreds of other residents...