A Dagger Pointed at the Heart of Antarctica
The Jacob Shapiro Podcast
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The Strategic Ambiguity Between New Zealand and the United States
There's a treaty called the Anzis Treaty which was supposed to be a trilateral defense treaty between Australia and New Zealand and the United States. In 1986, the Reagan administration threw an executive order, suspends its kind of security commitment to New Zealand because New Zealand had an anti-nuclear policy. From what happens from 2010 onwards is we do get a change of government in New Zealand, the John Key and National Conservative government comes in. And that's to increase our cooperation in the Pacific and also to start increasing military ties once again. But without the agreement, irrespective of the rhetoric, would the US come to New Zealand's assistant in a kind of conflict situation? It's not guaranteed
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