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With the announcement recently that Australia will procure 8 nuclear-powered submarines and forming a new trilateral security group with the UK, and US called AUKUS. How has AUKUS changed the playing field in the geopolitical arena?
New Zealand was left out of the discussions and people pointing out that it is we are friends not Allies with the US, and we can no longer be trusted with security matters. New Zealand’s woeful attempts appeasing allies. Our sea blindness politicians, and our cosying up to the CCP due to trade. And that last one is important.
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ANALYSIS: The AUKUS partnership has New Zealand’s only formal defence ally, Australia, turning nuclear-powered. And it has highlighted a sizeable difference in military might.
Australia, with the AUKUS defence pact announced on Thursday, has thrown its chips in with the United States and United Kingdom, promising to acquire at least six nuclear-powered submarines and pile up missiles in the face of an increasingly strident China.
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New Zealand is being labelled "a joke" on defence in the aftermath of its exclusion from the new AUKUS pact.
The defence pact between Australia, the US and the UK will formalise cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, and is seen as a counterweight to China's growing power in the region. Under the deal, the countries will share advanced technologies, including supplying nuclear-powered, but conventionally armed, submarines for the Royal Australian Navy.
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So Canada wasn't invited either???
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ANALYSIS: Only once in its history has America handed over a nuclear submarine propulsion plant, the crown jewels of military technology, to another country.
That was 63 years ago when America helped the Royal Navy to go nuclear. Now it will take that dramatic step again.
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Read more: Aukus: What does the Australian nuclear submarine deal mean for non-proliferation?
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With the Afghanistan withdrawal allowing the US to sharpen its focus on the Indo Pacific, Dr Wayne Mapp considers New Zealand’s position in the context of an energised or expanded Quad grouping.
The end game in Afghanistan proved to be as traumatic as was ever feared. The sight of thousands of panicked Afghans at Kabul airport, with the ultimate denouement of ISIS-K terror bombings seemed a stark illustration of the impotence of the West. It was an ignominious end to the 20-year intervention by the US-led coalition, which at its peak involved more than 50 nations.
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Read more: The failure of US counterinsurgency and the rise of the Indo Pacific
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MELBOURNE, Australia — China has lashed out at plans by Australia to forge a closer alliance with the United States and the United Kingdom, which includes the sharing of nuclear-powered submarine technology. But other Indo-Pacific nations are reacting more cautiously.
Speaking during a news conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the nuclear-powered submarine cooperation “has seriously undermined regional peace and stability, intensified the arms race and undermined international nonproliferation efforts.”
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Read more: What are the regional reactions to the new US-UK-Australia security pact?
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OPINION: When the grand new military alliance was announced between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States – dubbed Aukus – one name was missing its contribution to the acronym: New Zealand.
The real question is why the deal is not called NZAukus. In other words, why has New Zealand been left out in the cold on this new military hardware and defence co-operation deal. At its most basic, the answer is: nuclear. New Zealand has an anti-nuclear policy and, under the current Government, that will certainly not be revisited. Indeed, all parties in Parliament support this approach.
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Read more: Why Aukus should make us reconsider parts of our nuclear-free stance
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A former New Zealand Defence Minister believes the chances of a major war between Western powers and China in the coming decade is fairly low, but says there is a risk of "incidents".
The United States, United Kingdom and Australia on Thursday announced a new defence and security pact which will see the trio share information about technologies and coordinate their efforts to confront emerging challenges in the Indo-Pacific.
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