New Zealand faces the “most challenging national security environment of recent times”, the country’s intelligence agency said in an annual risk assessment.
Key drivers of the deteriorating threat environment were less stable relationships between states, deepening polarisation and growing grievances.
Though several states seek to manipulate New Zealand’s government and society, China remains the “most active”, the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service said.
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New Zealand’s spy agency specifically accused China’s United Front Work Department of engaging in foreign interference to build influence outside of China.
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China is a “particularly assertive and powerful actor”, seeking to extend and embed its influence across the region, the report said.
“It has demonstrated both a willingness and capability to undertake intelligence activity that targets New Zealand’s national interests.”
Without naming countries, the intelligence service highlighted the routine use of “transnational repression” by foreign states, often by co-opting people to collect information about someone within their own diaspora living in New Zealand.
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No surprises there. The interesting part of this report was the threat of people being radicalised into lone wolf terror attacks. Probably the biggest thing nz needs to insulate against.
The far-right guys that I’ve met just want a decent country to live in. If the government takes advantage of the people, you can expect bad things to happen. It’s on the government to give people a reason to not become radicalised in the first place. People will only radicalise if the government is corrupt and deliberately sabotaging the nation’s health.
If we want to de-radicalise then the government could start by apologising for its role in multiple U.S. wars which killed thousands of muslims. If our foreign policy considers the lives of muslims to be zero then naturally you’ll get the occasional BT, who described himself as a soldier. If the twin towers didn’t get blown up and if we didn’t get conned into killing people overseas, then we wouldn’t have mass-immigration or racism. Mosque shootings are blowback from the war on terror. Nobody in any far right group had anything to do with it. It’s actually NZSIS and their hostile policy towards muslims that caused a lot of the problems that we see today.
Now the same corrupt intelligence agencies are going to advocate for nuclear war with either China or Russia. The government wants to see dead people, lots of dead people.
We arent America
We aren’t but we always follow what America does. We imported the LGBT ideology from California and we also imported the culture wars from the MAGA movement.
Anyone that is carrying out a terror attack in NZ for geo political reasons is not doing it based on logic and would not accept an apology. It warrants no action other than keeping an eye out for radical behavior.