Defence Minister Peeni Henare. ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff
Reuters: New Zealand Defence Forces Warn of Rising Threat From China in Indo-Pacific
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's defence forces warned on Wednesday of the security threat from an increasingly powerful China as it assertively pursues its interests in the Indo-Pacific region.
Growing strategic competition between China, which is New Zealand's biggest trading partner, the United States and other powers will also boost potential for confrontation and conflict in the region, a defence assessment report said.
"New Zealand faces a world in which strategic competition is increasingly the background for states’ relationships," the report said, adding that China’s rise was the major driver of such competition.
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Update #1: New Zealand Warns of Rising Threat from China to Indo-Pacific -- Bloomberg
Update #2: NZ faces dangerous 'grey zone' of more sabotage, foreign interference, major Defence paper warns -- NZHerald
WNU editor: New Zealand is joining a number of other Asian countries in finally acknowledging the rise of China and the risks that it will entail.
3 comments:
Ya think? Yet NZ has virtually no means of self defense. Children should be seen and not heard from.
A bigger threat to the people of New Zealand is their own elected government.
Not true, they terrify two maybe three people
at least two.
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