{"id":6408,"date":"2023-07-13T05:05:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2023-07-13T05:05:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T17:05:18","slug":"after-being-a-welcome-guest-at-nato-nz-now-needs-to-consider-what-our-partnership-with-the-alliance-really-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6408","title":{"rendered":"After being a &#8216;welcome guest&#8217; at NATO, NZ now needs to consider what our partnership with the alliance really means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a &#8220;welcomed guest&#8221; at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/493406\/new-zealand-prepares-to-embrace-nato\">latest NATO summit in Lithuania<\/a>, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins had a front-row seat for debates over Ukrainian membership, the role of countries outside NATO&#8217;s traditional geographic boundaries, the ongoing threat of China, military spending and an accelerating nuclear arms race.<\/p>\n<p>The NATO meeting reaffirmed the alliance&#8217;s &#8220;iron-clad commitment to defend each other and every inch of allied territory at all times, protect our one billion citizens, and safeguard our freedom and democracy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the meeting also highlighted an evolving alliance that recently expanded to include Finland, with Sweden expected to join in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>It is worthwhile considering this direction, succinctly outlined by the official communiqu\u00e9 issued at the summit&#8217;s conclusion, and what it will mean for New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a &#8220;welcomed guest&#8221; at the\u00a0latest NATO summit in Lithuania, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins had a front-row seat for debates over Ukrainian membership, the role of countries outside NATO&#8217;s traditional geographic boundaries, the ongoing threat of China, military spending and an accelerating nuclear arms race. The NATO meeting reaffirmed the alliance&#8217;s &#8220;iron-clad commitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}