New Zealand’s efforts to walk a tightrope between its security partnerships in the west and its economic dependence on China will become increasingly hard to maintain, especially as efforts mount to convince it to sign the next phase of the AUKUS alliance.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins got the red carpet treatment in Beijing last week, when Chinese leader Xi Jinping called the smaller country a “friend and partner.”
That is especially the case as efforts mount to convince it to sign the next phase of the AUKUS alliance, which began as a nuclear-powered submarine deal between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, designed to keep China in check. Kurt Campbell, the White House’s Indo-Pacific coordinator, encouraged New Zealand to sign “pillar two” of the agreement when he was here in March, a message that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reiterated during a meeting with Hipkins the following month. They have been at pains to stress to New Zealand that there is no nuclear weapons capability to the submarines.
“New Zealand is part of the regional [Indo-Pacific] architecture. But that’s different from actually having a strategy,” Jackson said.
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