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Parent Category: News

Category: Defence

Published: 18 September 2021

Category : News

Author: Luke Malpass

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

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/126412999/why-aukus-should-make-us-reconsider-parts-of-our-nuclearfree-stance

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Published: 18 September 2021

Category : News

Author: Lucy Craymer

New Zealand and the United States are friends, not allies. That’s reflected in our exclusion from a new security pact. National Correspondent Lucy Craymer reports.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta have, in recent months, taken turns to emphasise the country’s independent foreign policy. Mahuta went so far as to say that the country was uncomfortable with an expanding remit of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, of which New Zealand remains a member.

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Read more: AUKUS Defence Pact: New Zealand's exclusion reflects our 'friend, not ally' status with the US

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/126404703/aukus-defence-pact-new-zealands-exclusion-reflects-our-friend-not-ally-status-with-the-us

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Written by NighthawkNZ

Category: News

Published: 18 September 2021

Category : Opinion

Author: Nicholas Khoo

OPINION: The lesson of the coronavirus era is this: international security does not stop, even during a global pandemic.

While New Zealand plays cat and mouse with the coronavirus, the United States and United Kingdom have just announced that they will assist Australia in deploying a conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarine fleet.

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Read more: Australia has learnt about China the hard way. When will NZ wise up?

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/china-and-nz/126415734/australia-has-learnt-about-china-the-hard-way-when-will-nz-wise-up

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Published: 17 September 2021

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Author: Reuters

Japan said it would have to determine if China meets the "extremely high standards" of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) after the world's second-biggest economy formally applied to join.

Commerce Minister Wang Wentao submitted China's application to join the free trade agreement in a letter to New Zealand's trade minister, Damien O'Connor, the Chinese ministry said in a statement late on Thursday.

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Read more: Japan sceptical China meets 'high standards' to join Trans-Pacific Partnership

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/09/japan-sceptical-china-meets-high-standards-to-join-trans-pacific-partnership.html

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