{"id":39633,"date":"2021-12-09T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-faces-growing-challenge-from-chinese-nationalism-defence-report-warns"},"modified":"2021-12-09T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:32:19","slug":"new-zealand-faces-growing-challenge-from-chinese-nationalism-defence-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39633","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand faces growing challenge from Chinese nationalism, defence report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence ministry says competition between US and China a \u2018major driver\u2019 of increased insecurity in the Pacific region<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand faces \u201ca substantially more challenging and complex strategic environment\u201d, in large part because of China\u2019s rise and \u201cincreasingly strong nationalist narrative\u201d, according to a stark report released by the country\u2019s defence ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkably explicit warning on Wednesday included a detailed discussion of China\u2019s military modernisation and emphasised the importance of New Zealand\u2019s deep security relationships with Anglosphere countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-faces-growing-challenge-from-chinese-nationalism-defence-report-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence ministry says competition between US and China a \u2018major driver\u2019 of increased insecurity in the Pacific regionNew Zealand faces \u201ca substantially more challenging and complex strategic environment\u201d, in large part because of China\u2019s rise and \u201cincr&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39633","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=39633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39634,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39633\/revisions\/39634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}