New Zealand’s strategic priority in the Indo-Pacific is not AUKUS – it's helping to defeat Russia in Ukraine
- Written by Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago
The debate in New Zealand over whether to join “pillar two” of the AUKUS security partnership threatens to overshadow a more important foreign policy challenge: how the country’s allies in the Indo-Pacific region are responding to the war in Ukraine.
AUKUS seems to be based on the assumption it will deter or counter China’s...
