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  • Source: Agencies
  • 27 Jul 2023 09:35
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New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he was "open to conversations" about limited participation in the alliance.

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  • Blinken says New Zealand welcome to 'engage' in anti-China AUKUS
    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) with New Zealand's Prime Minister Chris Hipkins at Parliament in Wellington on July 27, 2023 (AFP)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated on Thursday that New Zealand would be welcome to engage in the AUKUS alliance.

"The door's very much open for New Zealand and other partners to engage as they see appropriate going forward," Blinken said as he visited Wellington, a trip aimed at shoring-up Washington's alliances in the contested Pacific region. 

AUKUS is a pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States that includes plans to supply Canberra with nuclear-powered submarines. 

China vehemently opposes the pact, saying it ignores "the concerns of the international community" and plunges the region "further down the path of error and danger."

But New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Wednesday he was "open to conversations" about limited participation. 

New Zealand has ruled out any involvement in nuclear-related projects, the so-called "pillar one" of the AUKUS deal. 

Nuclear submarines are banned from entering New Zealand's waters under a widely popular anti-nuclear policy adopted in the mid-1980s. 

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But high-level talks about New Zealand's role in AUKUS have been heating up in recent months.

Any New Zealand involvement is likely to center on "pillar two" of the accord, which covers cyber warfare, artificial intelligence, and the development of long-range hypersonic missiles. 

New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta on Thursday noted that "nothing has been agreed to" yet, pointing out that any AUKUS proposal would first need to be approved by the country's cabinet. 

New Zealand and Australia are the main allies of the United States in the South Pacific. 

But New Zealand has recently been accused of putting its relationship with China ahead of its friendships with fellow Five Eyes spy group members the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. 

Hipkins traveled to China late last month, where he met with President Xi Jinping and signed a string of trade agreements. 

The Prime Minister hailed the trip as a reaffirmation of "important economic connections" between the two countries.

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