{"id":37020,"date":"2021-09-19T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/19\/aukus-pact-could-push-new-zealand-to-deepen-relations-with-europe-and-pacific"},"modified":"2021-09-19T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T22:00:18","slug":"aukus-pact-could-allow-new-zealand-to-deepen-relations-with-europe-and-pacific-pete-mckenzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37020","title":{"rendered":"Aukus pact could allow New Zealand to deepen relations with Europe and Pacific | Pete McKenzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As country\u2019s traditional allies take a more confrontational approach to China, it could offset Anglosphere divide with new partnerships<\/p>\n<p>During the announcement that America, the United Kingdom and Australia had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/15\/australia-nuclear-powered-submarines-us-uk-security-partnership-aukus\">formed a new Aukus defence pact<\/a> \u2013 inaugurated with the sale of American nuclear-powered submarines to Australia \u2013 Australian prime minister Scott Morrison lauded it as a \u201cforever partnership for a new time between the oldest and most trusted of friends\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That phrasing was notable given that the deal excluded New Zealand, which has historically been so close with Australia that the Australian constitution contemplates complete integration of the two countries. Remarkably, New Zealand\u2019s government apparently only learned about the Aukus deal when it began to be reported in the media on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/19\/aukus-pact-could-push-new-zealand-to-deepen-relations-with-europe-and-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As country\u2019s traditional allies take a more confrontational approach to China, it could offset Anglosphere divide with new partnershipsDuring the announcement that America, the United Kingdom and Australia had formed a new Aukus defence pact \u2013 inaugura&#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":[41,2346,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aukus","category-new-zealand","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\/37020","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=37020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37021,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37020\/revisions\/37021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}