Author: The Epoch Times

Beijing’s flagship foreign policy initiative, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has been mired in controversy since its inception, with critics warning that Beijing’s infrastructure projects place developing countries under a “debt trap” by offering unsustainable loans, while exploiting their natural resources to drive the Chinese economy.

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Author: Hannah Kronast & Wilhelmina Shrimpton

The driver involved in a fatal Rotorua bus crash has been sentenced to home detention, fined and disqualified from driving.

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Author: China in Focus - NTD

Multiple explosions rocked Beijing overnight. A hundred fire trucks showed up, with helicopters hovering nearby. The timing is sensitive.

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Author: Reuters

China's air force has released a video showing nuclear-capable H-6 bombers carrying out a simulated attack on what appears to be Andersen Air Force Base on the US Pacific island of Guam, as regional tensions rise.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/09/china-air-force-video-appears-to-show-simulated-attack-on-us-base.html
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Author: Alice Wilkins

A New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) applicant who ticked 'yes' to indicate a previous history of self-harm, was told she was "medically unfit" for the position.

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Author: Charles Marsh

As a proposed trade bloc, CANZUK is unusual for many reasons, but one of the most distinctive is its geographic dispersal. Unlike the EU or Mercosur, CANZUK’s member states are distributed across the globe, with the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans dividing them. Building upon a 2014 article, this piece seeks to assert the need for deeper naval integration in any future CANZUK organisation, with the aim of increased operational capability and efficiency.

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Author: Dom Stanford

China is quickly becoming a rogue state. Recent months have demonstrated that the traditional international organisations that we depend on to rein in state actors that flout the international rules-based system are weak, to be generous, and incompetent, to be blunt. Closer union between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom could provide the axis of strong diplomacy that the World is crying out for.

Article: http://www.dailyglobe.co.uk/comment/could-canzuk-be-the-multinational-alliance-we-need-to-tackle-china/
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