12-05-2025
China not the US is undermining NZ's security - Nicholas Khoo and Reuben Steff
It is China and not the US that is undermining New Zealand's security, Nicholas Khoo and Reuben Steff argue. Photo / Getty Images
Opinion by Nicholas Khoo and Reuben Steff
Nicholas Khoo is Associate Professor in the Politics programme at the University of Otago and a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Indo-Pacific Affairs in Christchurch. Reuben Steff is Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato. Author of 'New Zealand's Geopolitics and the US-China Competition'.
THREE KEY FACTS
Does New Zealand's increasingly close security ties with the United States and Australia put our security and sovereignty at risk?
In their op-ed in the NZ Herald on May 2, Helen Clark and Marco de Jong contend that 'by aligning with the United States and further integrating
