Category : Opinion

China is in trouble - and New Zealand should look to Japan for a way out of its reliance on it, a geopolitical expert says.

"No one is in a worse position than the Chinese," Peter Zeihan, a top geo-political strategist, says.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/519988/why-new-zealand-needs-to-prepare-now-for-a-future-in-a-world-without-china
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Category : Opinion
Author: Geoffrey Miller

For the third year in a row, New Zealand’s prime minister attended the alliance’s annual summit.

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Category : News
Author: Amelia Wade

The prime minister has caught a commercial flight after the Defence Force plane taking him to Japan blew two fuses in Papua New Guinea.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/06/christopher-luxon-forced-to-catch-commercial-flight-to-japan-after-defence-force-plane-breaks-down.html
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Author: Amelia Wade

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has made no secret of New Zealand's interest in the lower level of the nuclear-powered submarine pact AUKUS - but won't ask the only invited country outside of the triad about it.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/06/christopher-luxon-won-t-raise-nuclear-powered-submarine-aukus-deal-with-japan.html
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Author: Glenn McConnell

New Zealand is set to join a US-led military exercise which will see the NZDF train beside the Israel Defence Force.

Opposition parties say the NZDF’s involvement with the exercise is proof the Government isn’t taking the Israel-Gaza war seriously.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350307737/why-nz-navy-training-israel-and-what-could-mean
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Author: Nicholas Khoo

Chinese ambassador Wang Xiaolong’s decision to insert himself into NZ’s Aukus debate makes it clear we are now in the regional power politics game, Nicholas Khoo writes

Article: https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/28/how-to-handle-chinas-big-stick-diplomacy-on-aukus/
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Category : Defence
Author: RNZ

The government has extended Defence Force (NZDF) deployments to Africa and the Middle East, including supporting United Nations efforts on contested Israel and Arab country borders.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/517769/government-extends-defence-force-deployments-to-middle-east-and-africa
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