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Rival CPTPP applications set to create regional dilemma at time of geopolitical tensions.
Taiwan has applied to join a major transpacific trade pact just after a week after China filed its own membership bid, pitting the two adversaries against each other in a race to join.
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Read more: Taiwan follows China with bid to join transpacific trade pact
- Article: https://www.ft.com/content/cc1e4e0a-803d-43be-9f4d-ba9980a5c203
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French President Emmanuel Macron will send his ambassador back to the United States next week after President Joe Biden agreed that consulting France before announcing a security pact with Australia could have prevented a diplomatic row, the two sides said on Wednesday.
Last week, France recalled its ambassadors from the United States and Australia and accused Biden of stabbing it in the back after Australia ditched a $40-billion defence contract with Paris for the purchase of submarines and opted for US submarines instead.
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EDITORIAL: New Zealand needn’t view Aukus as if it’s a treehut the big boys won’t let us into.
The newly formed trilateral co-operation pact involving the United States, United Kingdom and Australia is a major development with unsettling implications.
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Read more: Hawkish Aukus not for us
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/126447877/hawkish-aukus-not-for-us
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Defence Minister Peeni Henare says the new Aukus defence pact is not cause for him to re-evaluate the Government's direction in defence spending, which he has said may be pushed into the future due to Covid-19.
The Aukus pact announced by Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States last week, will have New Zealand’s only formal defence ally, Australia, purchase at least six nuclear-powered submarines and a raft of long-range missiles in the coming decades, in an effort to counter China’s rising power in the Indo-Pacific region.
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France should not have been surprised that Australia cancelled a submarine contract, as major concerns about delays, cost overruns and suitability had been aired officially and publicly for years, Australian politicians said.
Paris has recalled its ambassadors from Canberra and Washington, saying it was blindsided by Canberra's decision to build nuclear-powered submarines with the United States and Britain rather than stick with its contract for French diesel submarines.
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Read more: Australian documents showed French submarine project was at risk for years
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/09/australian-documents-showed-french-submarine-project-was-at-risk-for-years.html
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No kidding the project balloon out of control, and even I knew it was in trouble and I am no expert...
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A new documentary claims COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan a lot earlier than Chinese authorities admitted and could have knowingly been spread during an international competition in the city.
What Really Happened in Wuhan is a Sky News documentary and book by The Australian investigative reporter Sharri Markson.
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Over the past two years, China has punished Canada and Australia for actions that the Chinese deem objectionable - and in response, both countries have faced unjust detentions of their citizens and sudden, harsh trade barriers.
Yet these two members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance — which also includes the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand — have responded differently. That's evident in the recent launch of the Australia/U.K./U.S. security pact called AUKUS, from which Canada is conspicuously absent.
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Read more: Canada and Australia's different approaches to China
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/09/canada-and-australia-s-different-approaches-to-china.html
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Legislation that will introduce a new offence - planning a terrorist attack - is a step closer to becoming law.
The Counter-Terrorism Legislation Bill passed its second reading in Parliament this afternoon.
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Read more: Counter-Terrorism Legislation Bill passes second reading
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/452004/counter-terrorism-legislation-bill-passes-second-reading
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