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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As I said there were some documented acts of terrorism like actions by some Uyghur factions. Some Chinese official or another was killed. The police and the military conducted a series of actions in the region including arrests of lots of people many of whom I am sure were not guilty of anything. They were arresting people for being collaborators and such. I am also pretty certain those people didn’t get fair trials either even though of course I have no access to the case files or the transcripts or anything like that. I just know how governments act when they crack down on insurgents and protestors.
Although all of that is unjust and condemnable it’s not genocide by any definition.
In any case it’s certainly not happening now. Things seem have calmed down significantly in the last five or six years and xian has had a lot of investment from the central government because it’s a crucial part of the belt and road initiative.