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Category: News

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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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?

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Category: News

Published: 17 September 2021

Category : News

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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Published: 17 September 2021

Category : News

Author: Reuters

Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities on its platform, using the same strategy its security teams take against campaigns using fake accounts, the company told Reuters.

The new approach, reported here for the first time, uses the tactics usually taken by Facebook's security teams for wholesale shutdowns of networks engaged in influence operations that use false accounts to manipulate public debate, such as Russian troll farms.

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Read more: Facebook responds to abuse scrutiny by revealing aggressive takedown moves

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