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.
Oh no. China is trying to influence other nations. I feel so afraid now. I might even support a war with China if this keeps up.
We have to stop the yellow menace
What’s this, NZSIS putting out a report, hoping for us to bat for their team? No thanks. I’m not supporting this crappy-arse government. I hope that China interferes a whole lot more.
Well, we can have more than one problem at a time, can’t we?
As much as I despise the current regime, they’re a lot better than dictators (and were elected, too - amazingly)
I’d prefer the dictators in China to the insane bloodthirsty, genodical maniacs in the USA, Israel, and Europe that’s for sure.
Chinas got plenty of its own bloodthirsty genocidal maniac, too…
In the distant past for sure.
Well, there’s a few active claims of genocide from Muslim people’s: Uyghur and Rohingya come to mind… I’m no expert but it appears to be hardly in the distant past.
Not comparing them to the Zionist powers we have at present, that’s another level, for sure
Well, there’s a few active claims of genocide from Muslim people’s: Uyghur and Rohingya come to mind… I’m no expert but it appears to be hardly in the distant past.
There were many claims made in the recent past and I did look into them quite a bit. I found a ton of accusations by Falun Gong and associated organizations which were being amplified by various right wing think tanks and media but I found absolutely no actual evidence of anything even remotely resembling genocide. There were some police actions in the xian region because the government claimed terrorism was going on and there were some reports of people being imprisoned without proper trials and such but no genocide or anything remotely like it.
In the past few months I have seen dozens of videos of travel vloggers on youtube as they have travelled to Uyghur semi autonomous regions and from what they show life in those areas are not different than any other areas of China. Some of these people are quite anti chinese too so I was shocked that they could not find any kind of genocide or oppression of the uyghurs. Even claims of suppression of language and culture are clearly not true as signs are all in dual languages and many cultural activities are taking place.
Compare that to horrific, sickening, disgusting, rage inducing images and videos coming out of gaza and there is no comparison at all. I have seen images I will never forget, beheaded babies, children crying while looking at their sister whose body has been cut in half, parents pulling out pieces of their children from the rubble, journalists burning alive in tents, mothers and children cowering huddled in a corner listening to the bombs falling outside, journalists being shot and killed, soldiers shooting and killing people scrambling to get a little bit a flour, and much much worse.
It’s disgusting what the USA, Israel and Europe are doing in Gaza.
People are being arrested in the UK for sitting down in a public place and holding a sign. I saw video of a person being arrested in Germany for having a sticker on their car that said “from the river to the sea”.
We live in a sick world and there is nothing more sick than the so called judeo christian values and the western civilization.
Agreed, they are completely different levels.
Interesting to hear you couldn’t substantiate the claims, though (I’ve not dug into it myself)
We don’t really know what happens in China. We know that they execute a decent number of people but it’s not clear how many executions and what the reasons are. Totally agree with you on Gaza.
I’ve got a problem with the Chinese government allowing people to torture and kill animals for “fun” but other than having no animal welfare laws I don’t see much that concerns me. Chinese society encourages people to chase money and work outside of work hours but that’s creeping into every country these days. China proves itself again and again that it’s on par with the West in many areas.
Do you mean things like horse racing or factory farming and stuff?
Hah, well I still buy cheese and honey. I can do without horse racing and most factory farming though. I haven’t gone vegan yet.
You really ought to see the subway system in North Korea and the new holiday resort they built.
Ha! Fuck that…
