New Zealand does this because it secures it access to intelligence from the other four nations involved in the program. And that intelligence can come from countries that are a threat.
New Zealand does have valid national security concerns. It has put troops into Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade and a half, and there are plenty of nations that don’t like that. But there’s also cases like the Rainbow Warrior where agents of the French government carried out a bombing in the heart of New Zealand.
French nuclear testing in the South Pacific area, has also lead to genuine tensions at times.
But most of all, this is about New Zealand being a good ally to the larger nations most important to its security. Since it upset a lot of its security relationship with the United States with its stance on nuclear weapons and refusing to allow access to its ports to USN ships unless they declare no such weapons are aboard (which the USN will not do), maintaining the other parts of the relationship is absolutely critical to the national security and defence of New Zealand.
“New Zealand does this because it secures it access to intelligence from the other four nations involved in the program. And that intelligence can come from countries that are a threat.”
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Technically, the five countries which make up FiveEyes, can’t spy on their own people. So they spy on other countries and share the data with their FiveEye countries.
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