{"id":34240,"date":"2021-07-20T12:11:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/20\/even-as-ardern-signals-alignment-with-us-new-zealand-still-seeks-to-maintain-distance"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:11:18","slug":"even-as-ardern-signals-alignment-with-us-new-zealand-still-seeks-to-maintain-distance-pete-mckenzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34240","title":{"rendered":"Even as Ardern signals alignment with US, New Zealand still seeks to maintain distance | Pete McKenzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the prime minister treads the delicate path between China and the US we shouldn\u2019t overstate the significance of her latest moves<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/20\/new-zealand-and-china-clash-after-west-condemns-malicious-cyber-activity\">New Zealand and China clash after west condemns \u2018malicious\u2019 cyber activity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand has long prided itself on having an \u201cindependent\u201d foreign policy that charts a middle path between great powers. It\u2019s an approach for which the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, and her new foreign minister, Nanaia Mahuta, have voiced strong support. Over the past week, however, Ardern has moved towards a much closer alignment with America.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest sign that for small countries caught amid great power competition, independence is increasingly difficult. It also raises the question: is this the end of New Zealand\u2019s \u201cindependent\u201d foreign policy, and if so, what comes next?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/20\/even-as-ardern-signals-alignment-with-us-new-zealand-still-seeks-to-maintain-distance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the prime minister treads the delicate path between China and the US we shouldn\u2019t overstate the significance of her latest movesNew Zealand and China clash after west condemns \u2018malicious\u2019 cyber activityNew Zealand has long prided itself on having an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,56,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34241,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34240\/revisions\/34241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}