Originally published on 14 March 2024. Getting caught up in geopolitical competition may seem uncomfortable enough for Pacific island countries. What’s making things worse is that outside powers’ struggle to influence them is weakening their …
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Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Defence Minister Richard Marles and their Kiwi counterparts need to discuss nuclear deterrence, not just non-proliferation, when they meet in Auckland for the second 2+2 Australia-New Zealand ministerial consultations (ANZMIN) today. …
The ANZMIN meeting of foreign and defence ministers in Auckland this week should focus on how Australia and New Zealand can modernise their alliance to deal with worsening strategic circumstances. The Luxon government has adopted …
It is rare for a developed nation’s navy to lose a big vessel in peacetime. The sinking of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s HMNZS Manawanui after it ran aground on a Samoan reef this month—the country’s first …
NATO and its four Indo-Pacific partners should cooperate and coordinate to ease a munitions shortage by increasing production of basic supplies, such as artillery shells, and further easing rules that restrict trade in more sophisticated …