{"id":69648,"date":"2025-02-24T14:09:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T05:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/24\/extremely-capable-weapons-on-chinese-warships-off-australias-east-coast-nz-government-says"},"modified":"2025-02-24T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T05:09:48","slug":"extremely-capable-weapons-on-chinese-warships-off-australias-east-coast-nz-government-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69648","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Extremely capable\u2019 weapons on Chinese warships off Australia\u2019s east coast, NZ government says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand defence minister Judith Collins says department has \u2018never seen a task group of this capability undertaking this sort of work\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/24\/australia-politics-live-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-russia-ukraine-medicare-gap-fee-bulk-billing-senate-estimates-cost-of-living-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s defence minister has warned that Chinese warships located off the east coast of Australia are armed with \u201cextremely capable\u201d weapons that could reach Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The three vessels, known as Taskgroup 107, undertook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/feb\/22\/china-conducts-second-live-fire-drill-near-new-zealand\">two live-fire exercises<\/a> in the seas between Australia and New Zealand last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/feb\/21\/commercial-flights-diverted-as-chinese-warships-undertake-apparent-live-fire-drill-in-sea-between-australia-and-new-zealand\">causing commercial flights to be diverted<\/a> in the skies above.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/24\/extremely-capable-weapons-on-chinese-warships-off-australias-east-coast-nz-government-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand defence minister Judith Collins says department has \u2018never seen a task group of this capability undertaking this sort of work\u2019Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastN&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,43,645,1585,50,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-china","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69648","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69649,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69648\/revisions\/69649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}