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Read more: Cook Islands asks: What about China?
- Article: http://www.cookislandsnews.com/national/economy/item/74762-cook-islands-asks-what-about-china
- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
Anyone reading the media coverage of New Zealand’s defence policy statement might conclude its purpose was to lay out a stronger position on China. That would be a mistake. Its central purpose is to put defence policy into language that can be owned by the new coalition government to justify some major capability investment decisions.
Read more: The domestic politics of New Zealand’s defence
A man allegedly rammed a local pub, multiple vehicles and threatened to injure officers with a knife and spade during his bid to flee police overnight Tuesday.
Read more: Tyres shot, helicopter search after fleeing man threatens police, rams cars
More than 11,000 scientists from around the world have signed a declaration that the world is in the grips of a climate emergency that threatens "the fate of humanity".
About 1000 deaths, thousands of injuries and extensive destruction along the east coast of the North Island - this will be the result of a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the Hikurangi subduction zone under a scenario presented by GNS Science.
Read more: 1000 deaths and widespread destruction following tsunami warns report
From a LSL to a LPD and the larger LHD, or LHA, ship to shore transfer is becoming a more vital role for the navy's around the world. Not just for moving military equipment but also in humanitarian aid and HADR. These specialised vessels have the command spaces, and communications, as well as operating theatres and hospital wards.
Read more: Ship to Shore : Amphibious Support Ships in The The Asia-Pacific Region
A Cook Islands company is understood to have been awarded the multi-million dollar contract to redo the pipework that was laid by the Chinese in stage one of Rarotonga’s water project. Land Holdings seeks drainlayers, welders and digger operators for big project, reports Rashneel Kuma
Read more: Local builders to fix shonky Chinese work
New Zealand Defence Force promises to invest security and resilience in the Pacific.
Read more: Cook Islands asks: What about China?
In August 1921, Henry Wigram summed up the attitude of New Zealanders to the necessity of establishing the aerial defence of our shores by writing that the government was hampered by a strong section of the community opposed to expenditure on armament.
Read more: Context of Air Operations in the Pacific
Revisiting Henry Wigram’s vision of defensive air power
RNZAF Air Power Development Centre Bulletin
Issue 38, Nov 2019
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