{"id":53868,"date":"2023-03-28T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T03:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/28\/new-zealand-may-join-aukus-pacts-non-nuclear-component"},"modified":"2023-03-28T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T03:11:17","slug":"new-zealand-may-join-aukus-pacts-non-nuclear-component","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53868","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand may join Aukus pact\u2019s non-nuclear component"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence minister says government \u2018willing to explore\u2019 participating in \u2018pillar two\u2019 of defence deal founded by Australia, UK and US<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s government has confirmed it is discussing joining the non-nuclear part of the Aukus alliance founded by Australia, the UK and US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been offered the opportunity to talk about whether we could or wish to participate in that pillar two [non-nuclear] aspect of it,\u201d said Andrew Little, the New Zealand defence minister. \u201cI\u2019ve indicated we will be willing to explore it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/28\/new-zealand-may-join-aukus-pacts-non-nuclear-component\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence minister says government \u2018willing to explore\u2019 participating in \u2018pillar two\u2019 of defence deal founded by Australia, UK and USNew Zealand\u2019s government has confirmed it is discussing joining the non-nuclear part of the Aukus alliance founded by Aus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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-53868","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\/53868","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53869,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53868\/revisions\/53869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}