Category : News
Author: Mike Kilpatrick

In November China's Yutu 2 lunar rover photographed an object on the far side of the moon that was quickly dubbed a 'mystery house'.

According to journalist Andrew Jones, who reports on China's space programme, the cube-shaped image was around 80m away from the rover in an area known as the Von Kármán crater.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2021/12/why-is-it-taking-so-long-to-find-out-what-the-mystery-house-on-the-moon-is.html
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Category : News
Author: Sam Sherwood, Nadine Porter and Liz McDonald

New Zealand's first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 had arrived in the country from Germany, via Dubai and Auckland, last Friday.

The case has prompted experts to urge the Government to delay opening the border, restrict passengers from high-risk countries, and reconsider allowing Covid-19 patients to isolate at home.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300480140/covid19-first-person-in-nz-with-omicron-had-flown-from-germany-six-days-ago
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Author: Brendan Morrow

A new report from a human rights group has found North Korea has publicly executed at least seven people for watching or distributing K-pop videos in the last decade, according to The New York Times.

Article: https://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-reportedly-publicly-executed-124958531.html
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Category : News
Author: Sam Sachdeva

As the United States and China battle for technological supremacy, will countries like New Zealand be forced to pick a side or can the status quo be maintained?

Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/technology/how-the-us-china-decoupling-drive-may-affect-nz
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Author: Jonathan Milne

There are claims and counter-claims that China is vying with Taiwan and the US to offer inducements to Solomon Islands leaders for their support – and New Zealand police and defence personnel are caught in the middle.

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Category : Defence
Author: Reuben Steff

Kiwis are told to put together emergency kits for a worst-case scenario – but the New Zealand state’s own stockpile is lacking despite an increasingly uncertain global environment, Dr Reuben Steff writes

Comment: Is Aotearoa New Zealand prepared for an increasingly unstable and unpredictable future?

Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/a-wake-up-call-for-aotearoa-as-global-instability-grows
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Category : Defence
Author: Thomas Manch

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.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/127296612/governments-new-national-security-priorities-reveals-growing-concerns-about-strategic-competition
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Category : Defence
Author: Robert Ayson

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.

Article: https://www.incline.org.nz/home/wanted-scary-pacific-trends-for-new-zealands-defence-assessment
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