{"id":45143,"date":"2022-06-04T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/04\/we-dont-need-to-be-reactive-new-zealand-keeps-faith-in-its-foreign-policy-amid-china-pacific-push"},"modified":"2022-06-04T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T18:00:14","slug":"we-dont-need-to-be-reactive-new-zealand-keeps-faith-in-its-foreign-policy-amid-china-pacific-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45143","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We don\u2019t need to be reactive\u2019: New Zealand keeps faith in its foreign policy amid China Pacific push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta accepts China has become more assertive in the region but says approach will remain essentially unchanged <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s foreign minister has defended herself against accusations of complacency in the wake of China\u2019s dramatic push for greater influence in the Pacific region, saying New Zealand does \u201cnot need to be reactive to any other agenda from any other country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the immediate aftermath of China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/20\/the-deal-that-shocked-the-world-inside-the-china-solomons-security-pact\">attempt to sign 10 Pacific Island countries up to a sweeping regional security deal<\/a> that appeared to catch the west off guard, and its announcement of bilateral deals with Solomon Islands, Samoa and Kiribati, the government has faced criticism from former diplomats and opposition politicians that it has been missing in action.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/04\/we-dont-need-to-be-reactive-new-zealand-keeps-faith-in-its-foreign-policy-amid-china-pacific-push\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta accepts China has become more assertive in the region but says approach will remain essentially unchanged New Zealand\u2019s foreign minister has defended herself against accusations of complacency in the wake of China\u2019s drama&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,50,56,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45143","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45144,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45143\/revisions\/45144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}