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Beijing’s flagship foreign policy initiative, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has been mired in controversy since its inception, with critics warning that Beijing’s infrastructure projects place developing countries under a “debt trap” by offering unsustainable loans, while exploiting their natural resources to drive the Chinese economy.
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Read more: CCP’s Samoan Projects, Saddled With Problems in Quality
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The driver involved in a fatal Rotorua bus crash has been sentenced to home detention, fined and disqualified from driving.
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Read more: Rotorua fatal bus crash driver Junwei Zhang sentenced to home detention
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Multiple explosions rocked Beijing overnight. A hundred fire trucks showed up, with helicopters hovering nearby. The timing is sensitive.
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China's air force has released a video showing nuclear-capable H-6 bombers carrying out a simulated attack on what appears to be Andersen Air Force Base on the US Pacific island of Guam, as regional tensions rise.
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Read more: China air force video appears to show simulated attack on US base
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Southern and central New Zealand is bracing for a massive storm, with torrential rain, thunderstorms and damaging gales in the next 24 hours.
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Read more: Destructive gales, torrential rain to blast South Island and lower North Island
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A New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) applicant who ticked 'yes' to indicate a previous history of self-harm, was told she was "medically unfit" for the position.
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Read more: Woman told to stop Royal NZ Navy application after admitting to previous self harm
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As a proposed trade bloc, CANZUK is unusual for many reasons, but one of the most distinctive is its geographic dispersal. Unlike the EU or Mercosur, CANZUK’s member states are distributed across the globe, with the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans dividing them. Building upon a 2014 article, this piece seeks to assert the need for deeper naval integration in any future CANZUK organisation, with the aim of increased operational capability and efficiency.
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Read more: Will There Be A Need For Naval Cooperation Within #CANZUK?
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China is quickly becoming a rogue state. Recent months have demonstrated that the traditional international organisations that we depend on to rein in state actors that flout the international rules-based system are weak, to be generous, and incompetent, to be blunt. Closer union between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom could provide the axis of strong diplomacy that the World is crying out for.
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Read more: Could CANZUK be the multinational alliance we need to tackle China?
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