{"id":61602,"date":"2024-02-02T10:06:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T01:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/02\/new-zealand-aukus-alliance-membership"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T06:23:41","slug":"new-zealand-steps-up-interest-in-aukus-as-pacific-security-concerns-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61602","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand steps up interest in Aukus as Pacific security concerns grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia to send delegation to NZ \u2018very shortly\u2019 to brief on second pillar of Aukus alliance after ministers meet in Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has stepped up its interest in joining the non-nuclear pillar of Aukus, amid China\u2019s growing presence in the Pacific and broader concerns over a \u201creshaped world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s foreign minister Winston Peters \u2013 also a deputy prime minister \u2013 and the defence minister, Judith Collins, travelled to Melbourne to meet with their Australian counterparts, Penny Wong and Richard Marles, for the inaugural \u201c2+2\u201d Australia and New Zealand foreign and defence ministers\u2019 meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/02\/new-zealand-aukus-alliance-membership\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia to send delegation to NZ \u2018very shortly\u2019 to brief on second pillar of Aukus alliance after ministers meet in MelbourneNew Zealand has stepped up its interest in joining the non-nuclear pillar of Aukus, amid China\u2019s growing presence in the Paci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4121,"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":[41,2346,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aukus","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61602","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\/4121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61609,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61602\/revisions\/61609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}