{"id":54108,"date":"2023-04-06T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/06\/new-zealand-spy-chiefs-warn-of-increasingly-aggressive-foreign-interference"},"modified":"2023-04-06T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T05:00:34","slug":"new-zealand-spy-chiefs-warn-of-increasingly-aggressive-foreign-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54108","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand spy chiefs warn of \u2018increasingly aggressive\u2019 foreign interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say country\u2019s strategic importance in Pacific has attracted attention of nations such as China<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s intelligence bosses have warned of \u201cincreasingly aggressive activity\u201d in the country by people they believe are spies for foreign states.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzsis.govt.nz\/assets\/NZSIS-Documents\/NZSIS-Annual-Reports\/2021-22-NZSIS-Annual-Report.pdf\">annual report<\/a> by the Security Intelligence Service (SIS), published this week, said unnamed states are making \u201cenduring and persistent\u201d efforts to collect intelligence against New Zealand\u2019s government, target those with access to sensitive information, and interfere in all spheres of the country\u2019s public life. Agents from one foreign government have cultivated \u201ca range of relationships of significant concern\u201d, the report said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/06\/new-zealand-spy-chiefs-warn-of-increasingly-aggressive-foreign-interference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say country\u2019s strategic importance in Pacific has attracted attention of nations such as ChinaNew Zealand\u2019s intelligence bosses have warned of \u201cincreasingly aggressive activity\u201d in the country by people they believe are spies for foreign state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,50,56,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand","category-russia","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\/54108","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54109,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54108\/revisions\/54109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}