{"id":39669,"date":"2021-12-10T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T06:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/dec\/10\/new-zealand-isnt-naive-about-china-but-it-doesnt-accept-the-aukus-worldview"},"modified":"2021-12-10T15:14:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T06:14:05","slug":"new-zealand-isnt-naive-about-china-but-it-doesnt-accept-the-aukus-worldview-robert-g-patman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39669","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand isn\u2019t naive about China \u2013 but it doesn\u2019t accept the Aukus worldview | Robert G Patman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ardern government does not believe that the fate of the Indo-Pacific rests on US-China rivalry<\/p>\n<p>After the Biden administration\u2019s announcement concerning the \u201cdiplomatic ban\u201d of China\u2019s Winter Games, Jacinda Ardern\u2019s government has distanced itself from western allies once again \u2013 but it would be wrong to assume that Wellington has any illusions about China.<\/p>\n<p>The US government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/dec\/06\/china-denounces-possible-us-olympic-boycott-as-provocation\">confirmed this week<\/a> it would diplomatically boycott the Winter Olympic Games to protest against China\u2019s persecution of the Uyghur people in the country\u2019s Xinjiang province. Australia, UK and Canada subsequently indicated they would join the boycott.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/dec\/10\/new-zealand-isnt-naive-about-china-but-it-doesnt-accept-the-aukus-worldview\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ardern government does not believe that the fate of the Indo-Pacific rests on US-China rivalryAfter the Biden administration\u2019s announcement concerning the \u201cdiplomatic ban\u201d of China\u2019s Winter Games, Jacinda Ardern\u2019s government has distanced itself fr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2726,"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":[41,50,56,933,1716,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-winter-olympics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669","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\/2726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39670,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669\/revisions\/39670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}