New Zealand’s dangerous strategic apathy in an uncertain age

Recommendable! The Kiwis are defenseless a.k.a. "unarmed neutrality". But New Zealand is not Switzerland!

"Coercion doesn’t require bombs. After Canterbury University professor Anne-Marie Brady published her ‘Magic weapons’ paper about the extent of Chinese political influence, she says she has been subject to continual harassment by the Chinese government."

New Zealand’s dangerous strategic apathy in an uncertain age | The Strategist: When New Zealanders vote this September, they should consider closing a self-inflicted wound—decades of disarmament and dangerous strategic apathy. In 1949, a distinguished New Zealand soldier, Major General Sir Howard Kippenberger, warned: It may be ...