New Zealand’s big foreign and defence policy shake-up
New Zealand is joining the pack to counter China – and will probably seek to join AUKUS. Those are the key takeaways from a barrage of new plans to reshape New Zealand’s defence policy. Not just one, but three new reports were released simultaneously on Friday morning by the country’s Labour defence minister, Andrew Little. These include New Zealand’s inaugural National Security Strategy, along with a military-focused Defence Policy and Strategy Statement. A third document, the ‘Future Force Design Principles’, spells out some further general recommendations for reconfiguring New Zealand’s military. Collectively, the publicly-released plans – which run to over...