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...