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Have New Zealanders really been ‘misled’ about AUKUS, or is involvement now a foregone conclusion?

  • Written by Marco de Jong, Lecturer, Law School, Auckland University of Technology
Have New Zealanders really been ‘misled’ about AUKUS, or is involvement now a foregone conclusion?Getty Images

When former prime minister Helen Clark spoke out against New Zealand potentially compromising its independent foreign policy by joining pillar two of the AUKUS security pact, foreign minister Winston Peters responded bluntly:

On what could she have possibly based that statement? […] And I’m saying to people, including Helen...

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