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First landing, HMNZS Aotearoa welcomed the NZ Air Force to its flight deck for the first time as one of No. 3 Squadron's NH90 helicopters & our Seasprite helicopter from No. 6 Squadron practised landing and flight deck procedures.
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Read more: First landing HMNZS Aotearoa welcomed the NZ Air Force
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ANALYSIS: With tension escalating between China and members of the Five Eyes security alliance, most recently over a Chinese tweet that used a doctored image to attack Australia, New Zealand is arguably in a prime position to broker a kind of truce.
Someone needs to take the initiative. Right now, things are deteriorating, as the trade stand-off with Australia demonstrates.
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Read more: NZ ideally placed to broker truce between China and the Five Eyes alliance
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Taiwan has called on Canberra to stand up for democracy and help defend the disputed island territory against threats of attack. Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu tells the ABC's International Affairs Analyst Stan Grant that the risk of regional conflict is 'higher than before' because of Beijing's increasing aggression and authoritarianism.
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Read more: Taiwan calls on Australia to help defend against China's 'expansionism'
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Home before Christmas 
After almost three years away in Canada, HMNZS Te Kaha departed for home yesterday after completing a significant frigate upgrade that has futureproofed her surveillance and combat systems. Rear Admiral Bob Auchterlonie, Commander Canadian Maritime Forces Pacific, farewelled HMNZS Te Kaha and her crew as she sailed out of Esquimalt Harbour.
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All I can say is they didn't even buff and polish her... maybe that cost extra...
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Australia's allies are not doing enough to protect it from "bullying" by China, a Kiwi academic believes, and should look to New Zealand as an example of how to offer genuine support.
Anne Marie Brady, a politics professor at Canterbury University, praised Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's support of Australia in the conflict and called on other countries to follow suit in a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday.
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Millions of people around the world are being urged to buy an Australian bottle of wine or two, as a way of showing Chinese President Xi Jinping that the world will not be intimidated by his “bullying of Australia”.
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), comprising more than 200 MPs from a range of political parties and representing 19 country legislatures, has launched a campaign to convince people to buy and drink Australian wine in December, as a show of solidarity.
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China is "surprised" New Zealand has weighed into a tense war of words between the Middle Kingdom and Australia over a graphic Twitter image, asking what business it is of Aotearoa's.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday demanded an apology from China after the Asian nation's foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian posted an inflammatory image on Twitter.
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Read more: China 'surprised' New Zealand weighed into Australian soldier image debate
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New Zealand has weighed into the escalating row between China and Australia, formally registering its concern last night with Chinese authorities about a tweet of a image depicting an Australian soldier.
China is brushing off calls for it to apologise for a foreign ministry official's tweet with a faked photo of an Australian soldier holding a knife to an Afghan child's throat.
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Read more: New Zealand registers concern with China over official's 'unfactual' tweet
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