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New Zealand declines invite to join Board of Peace (www.reuters.com)

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[–] Rossphorus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

NZ is more aligned with the Commonwealth than the US. If the UK invited NZ to something and we turned it down that would be a big deal.

We have a fairly small standing military, so we need at least one strong ally, and geographically speaking it's gonna be either the US or China. I'd label NZ as a 'begrudging' US ally in that sense. NZ has previously verbally sparred with the US after we barred all nuclear-powered ships in our waters, so this wouldn't be the first time there's been some political tension between the two.

Australia has a much stronger relationship with the US, hosting their military bases, nuclear weapons, and such. It'll be interesting to see what their response is.

[–] persona_non_gravitas@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you for the clarification! I stand corrected. 🙂