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New Zealand and the United States are friends, not allies. That’s reflected in our exclusion from a new security pact. National Correspondent Lucy Craymer reports.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta have, in recent months, taken turns to emphasise the country’s independent foreign policy. Mahuta went so far as to say that the country was uncomfortable with an expanding remit of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, of which New Zealand remains a member.
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OPINION: The lesson of the coronavirus era is this: international security does not stop, even during a global pandemic.
While New Zealand plays cat and mouse with the coronavirus, the United States and United Kingdom have just announced that they will assist Australia in deploying a conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarine fleet.
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Read more: Australia has learnt about China the hard way. When will NZ wise up?
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Japan said it would have to determine if China meets the "extremely high standards" of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) after the world's second-biggest economy formally applied to join.
Commerce Minister Wang Wentao submitted China's application to join the free trade agreement in a letter to New Zealand's trade minister, Damien O'Connor, the Chinese ministry said in a statement late on Thursday.
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Read more: Japan sceptical China meets 'high standards' to join Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities on its platform, using the same strategy its security teams take against campaigns using fake accounts, the company told Reuters.
The new approach, reported here for the first time, uses the tactics usually taken by Facebook's security teams for wholesale shutdowns of networks engaged in influence operations that use false accounts to manipulate public debate, such as Russian troll farms.
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Read more: Facebook responds to abuse scrutiny by revealing aggressive takedown moves
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China has applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the world's biggest free trade agreement.
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Read more: China applies to join Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Australia's Defence Minister Peter Dutton has bluntly warned the prospect of war with China cannot be ruled out, but said it was ultimately "a question for the Chinese".
Speaking in Washington DC to Sky News, Dutton raised the issue of Taiwan's sovereignty as the most likely flashpoint.
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Read more: Australian Defence Minister's warning over prospect of war with China
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Defence Minister Peeni Henare says he has ‘no concern’ for two Royal New Zealand Navy ships heading to the South China Sea.
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Read more: 'No concern' around NZ Navy ships in South China Sea - Henare
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New Zealand's deputy Prime Minister isn't reading anything into the timing of China's request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) has confirmed to Newshub that China formally requested to join the free trade agreement - which involves New Zealand and 10 other Asia-Pacific nations - on Thursday.
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