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New Zealand says 'uncomfortable' with expanding Five Eyes
Reuters ^

Posted on 04/19/2021 4:22:16 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

Last year, the Five Eyes discussed cooperation beyond intelligence sharing, including on critical technology, Hong Kong, supply chains and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a statement by Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne in 2020.

Mahuta's office told Reuters it couldn't provide a copy of her comments on the Five Eyes.

Payne will travel to New Zealand on Wednesday for meetings with Mahuta and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the first diplomatic visit between the neighbouring countries since borders reopened both ways.

Canberra has recently endured a rockier relationship with Beijing than Wellington, with Australia's trade minister unable to secure a call with his Chinese counterpart as exporters were hit with multiple trade sanctions from China

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: fiveeyes; newzealand; surveillance
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Divide and conquer. US reinforces Taiwan, China counters with New Zealand.
1 posted on 04/19/2021 4:22:16 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

New Zealand is lost....just as surely as San Francisco is lost.


2 posted on 04/19/2021 4:26:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: ameribbean expat

US law forbade our spy agencies from spying on Americans at home. The CIA hired the Brits and commonwealths to do it for them and to hand them the information. Then they pretend it came from a foreign source.

Blatantly criminal.


3 posted on 04/19/2021 4:30:09 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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Rule of Law is out the window. The government protects some people and victimizes other people.


4 posted on 04/19/2021 4:33:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: DesertRhino

Yep.


5 posted on 04/19/2021 4:34:04 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: Gay State Conservative

That’s fine. I will give them New Zealand to keep Taiwan any day, every day, all day long!


6 posted on 04/19/2021 4:41:21 PM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: ameribbean expat

A freeper did this post....

Covfefe... Covert Five Eyes, Five Eyes.

LOL!


7 posted on 04/19/2021 4:41:23 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: beancounter13

Add the UK as well.

Gone.


8 posted on 04/19/2021 4:43:31 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: beancounter13

Agreed.The people (and leaders) of Taiwan could teach New Zealand a thing or two about courage...decency...wisdom...


9 posted on 04/19/2021 4:48:19 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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New Zealand’s kiwis were never involved in any operation that I know of in any theater.

Kiwis are no friends of the US Navy...

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/new-zealands-anti-nuclear-legislation-and-united-states-1985


10 posted on 04/19/2021 4:53:29 PM PDT by Drunkin_Squid
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At least the French got a rare "military victory" in New Zealand...


11 posted on 04/19/2021 4:55:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Yes,I knew about their anti nuclear policy. That’s part of why I see them as lost.


12 posted on 04/19/2021 4:56:59 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: ameribbean expat

I have no idea why we share ANYTHING with these Socialist-Lite countries.

Once upon a time it was because we all had an ethnic connection - 90% Anglo-Saxon Protestant populations.

Those days are GONE.

We got nothin’ in common with them now, except that some of their telly broadcasts are in English...but then, that’s not our national language anymore either. So says Mexico!


13 posted on 04/19/2021 5:02:53 PM PDT by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Trust me...NZ contributes exactly ZERO to the intel folks. The Aussies, however have their shiite together!


14 posted on 04/19/2021 5:08:38 PM PDT by gr8eman (Elder Non-Binary Sibling is Watching You!)
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To: DesertRhino

And then the Five Eyes were used against President Trump.


15 posted on 04/19/2021 5:09:04 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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Yup. Nations exchanging the captured electronic communications of other nations for their own citizen’s communications to “bypass” the laws against spying on their own citizens.

Freegards


16 posted on 04/19/2021 5:11:56 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: ameribbean expat

17 posted on 04/19/2021 5:12:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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New Zealand says ‘uncomfortable’ with expanding Five Eyes”

I am too with Biden and the democrats in charge of things.


18 posted on 04/19/2021 5:19:00 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Our society now tends to vote in the stupidest people possible who immediately do what stupid people do with so much power. It is actually a mental illness both ways.


19 posted on 04/19/2021 5:41:08 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover

I’m far more inclined to think depravity than stupidity.


20 posted on 04/19/2021 5:45:52 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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