Government's new national security priorities reveals growing concerns about 'strategic competition'
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The Government is growing increasingly concerned about the rising threat of "strategic competition" between powerful countries, according to a raft of new national security priorities.
The 2021 National Security Intelligence Priorities, released by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday morning, will have the Government’s national security and intelligence agencies focusing on growing strategic competition in the Pacific, the threats or actual conflicts within New Zealand’s maritime domain, and threats to “democracy and territory” elsewhere in the world.
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Analysis - Victoria University Professor of Strategic Studies Robert Ayson* breaks down the Pacific trends informing New Zealand's 2021 Defence Assessment.
Speculation was rife earlier this year that Peeni Henare was about to announce his defence policy principles in a stand-alone speech. If that mode of delivery had eventuated, observers would have pounced.
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Read more: New Zealand's Defence Assessment and its Pacific future
- Article: https://www.incline.org.nz/home/wanted-scary-pacific-trends-for-new-zealands-defence-assessment
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The New Zealand Government has labelled killer robots "a threat against humanity".
It comes as the issue of using Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) was debated by the United Nations in Geneva.
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Read more: Killer robots 'threat against humanity' Government says
- Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/12/15/killer-robots-threat-against-humanity-government-says/
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OPINION: The Ministry of Defence has laid out a sobering analysis of New Zealand’s national security situation. In its first sentence, the December 8 Defence Assessment declares Aotearoa “faces a substantially more challenging and complex strategic environment than it has for decades.”
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Read more: New Zealand is not a bystander when it comes to 'strategic competition'
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/china-and-nz/300477093/opinion-new-zealand-is-not-a-bystander-when-it-comes-to-strategic-competition
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Read more: Rheinmetall completes handover of heavy recovery vehicles to NZDF
- Article: https://www.australiandefence.com.au/news/rheinmetall-completes-handover-of-heavy-recovery-vehicles-to-nzdf
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A new defence report identifies 'China's rise' and its power struggle with the United States as one of the pre-eminent security risks in the Indo-Pacific.
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Analysis - Ambiguity and contradiction over China have been hallmarks of New Zealand's foreign policy throughout 2021.
In this respect, the government's hawkish new defence assessment, coupled with conflicting comments by ministers about New Zealand's view on a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing, was a fitting end to the year.
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Read more: Geoffrey Miller: China strategy dominates New Zealand’s foreign policy year
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/457681/geoffrey-miller-china-strategy-dominates-new-zealand-s-foreign-policy-year
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More than 300 military personnel who served in managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities have quit the armed forces.
New figures also reveal the Defence Force is on track to lose more than 1000 regular force or reserve personnel in 2021.
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Read more: 'Massively concerning' - 338 military personnel who served in MIQ quit
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300469780/massively-concerning--338-military-personnel-who-served-in-miq-quit
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Well I have been saying thigs for a while... when they bought the armed forces in to manage MIQ, I said, "ok, but if it drags on troops will leave the NZDF, as that is not what they signed up for. They are not gloried guards."
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