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The Prime Minister has rebuffed China's concerns of a trade division.
Jacinda Ardern chaired an APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting overnight, where they discussed COVID-19, the economic recovery from the pandemic and climate change.
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Read more: APEC leaders reject vaccine nationalism, don New Zealand-made merino wool
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/11/apec-leaders-reject-vaccine-nationalism-don-new-zealand-made-merino-wool.html
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- Category : Defence
A judge has rejected the New Zealand Defence Force's claim that a training exercise in which a decorated soldier died was exempt from health and safety laws.
This is in part because the training couldn't be deemed "operational" because it used US Black Hawk helicopters, which the New Zealand army does not normally have access to. The Black Hawk helicopters would therefore be unavailable for the New Zealand Defence Force to use in response to a domestic incident.
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Read more: Why a judge rejected NZDF claims about exemptions from health and safety laws
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/455335/explainer-why-a-judge-rejected-nzdf-claims-about-exemptions-from-health-and-safety-laws
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When Lee Alexander Doyle was betrayed by his platoon leader, his request for help was given a quick reply: suck it up.
Heartbroken after his partner had an affair with the leader, he turned to taking, then dealing, drugs to cope.
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Read more: Soldier who turned to drugs after heartbreak sentenced for dealing MDMA
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300446004/soldier-who-turned-to-drugs-after-heartbreak-sentenced-for-dealing-mdma
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- Category : Defence
On 11 November 2021, the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) reported that NH90-TTH with serial NZ3302 (construction number 1206) reach 2,000 flying hours. With this milestone, the RNZAF NH90 is the first in the world of this type to reach this number of flying hours.
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Read more: Milestone RNZAF NH90
- Article: https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/milestone-rnzaf-nh90
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To be fair it's serial construction number 1206 ... and it is the first in the world to reach 2000 flying hours... it means the NH-90's are over worked and we don't have enough air frames to spread the work load out over the entire fleet. No something to be proud of really.
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The Kiribati Government has decided to open up one of the world’s largest marine reserves to commercial fishing and de-register it as a World Heritage site.
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) spans over 400,000 square kilometres and borders US waters.
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Read more: Fears over China’s involvement in Kiribati’s ditching of marine reserve
- Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/11/11/fears-over-chinas-involvement-in-kiribatis-ditching-of-marine-reserve/
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- Category : Defence
Future maritime conflict will be conducted in the grey zone. It’s a reality that New Zealand cannot ignore, and it has implications for the next generation of naval capability, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts.
I once tried to explain to a very intelligent person what the Navy was for. I described how it protected our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and Extended Continental Shelf (ECS), and that 90% of our trade by value and 99% by volume travelled in ships and thus needed to be protected, as did the 90% of our information traffic with the wider world that passes along undersea cables.
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Read more: Sustained Presence: The Royal New Zealand Navy and the Grey Zone
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2021/11/10/royal-new-zealand-navy-and-the-grey-zone/
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- Category : News
Chinese President Xi Jinping has issued a warning to Asia Pacific nations not to "relapse into the confrontation and division of the Cold War era" during his APEC address.
The President was the second world leader after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to speak at the APEC CEO Summit, hosted in Auckland. Media were alerted late on Wednesday night that Xi Jinping would speak in the opening session.
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China has built what appear to be full-scale outlines of American warships including an aircraft carrier, satellite imagery showed, possible targets to practice striking some of the most potent US weapons deployed in the Pacific.
The US Navy’s carrier battle groups — centered around massive aircraft carriers — are among the most powerful weapons in the American arsenal.
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Read more: Satellites spot US warship mock-ups at apparent China weapons range
- Article: https://www.defencetalk.com/satellites-spot-us-warship-mock-ups-at-apparent-china-weapons-range-77481/
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