As New Zealand reshapes ties with China, foreign interference must be brought out of the shadows | Sam Sachdeva
Prime minister Chris Hipkins’ upcoming visit to China comes as New Zealand wrestles with how to prevent interference by the superpower and other states
With more than $30bn of new spending, a mere $9m initiative in New Zealand’s latest budget might seem too trivial to mention.
Yet the New Zealand government’s recent decision to fund an investigation into the impact of foreign interference on ethnic communities is a small step towards tackling an outsized problem: how to deal with meddling from foreign states, our largest trading partner included.
Sam Sachdeva is New Zealand news site the Newsroom’s national affairs editor and author of The China Tightrope, a newly released book about the changing China-New Zealand relationship.
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