ABC Updates
10 February 2022
1/ Rocket Lab, Which Is A
US Company, Expands In That Country
2/ NZ Via Rocket Lab
Joins Push To Mine Moon & Other Space Resources
"The (NZ) Space Agency noted that signing the
Accords presented some risk to international relationships. 'The
Accords may be viewed by some nations as an attempt to bypass the UN
Committee on the Peaceful Use of Outer Space process and the UN
treaty-making process', the Agency said".
https://northandsouth.co.nz/2022/01/26/new-zealand-moon-artemis-accords/
3/ Five Eyes
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/nz-investors-win-carve-out-from-us-foreign-financing-rules
"New
Zealanders will now jump through fewer hoops to invest in American
businesses and real estate, after the Government secured a temporary
exemption to the country’s foreign investment screening rules. The US
decision represents another step towards more tightly binding together
Five Eyes nations, with New Zealand’s intelligence-sharing
relationship and defence cooperation cited as key factors for the
decision".
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/02/02/the-foreign-policy-noose-which-is-the-five-eyes-alliance/
4/ SIS
5/ NZ's National Security
Priorities: Containing China
6/ Old Colonial Powers Back
On Scene In "Indo-Pacific"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/127501656/european-powers-are-back-in-nzs-strategic-calculations
7/ NZ Wants To Ride On
AUKUS Coat Tails
8/ RNZAF's Expensive New
Poseidon Reconnaissance Planes Conspicuous By Absence From Tonga
Emergency
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2201/S00022/on-sending-an-orion-p-3-to-tonga.htm
"In reality, the Poseidons
purchase was to enable New Zealand to line up alongside our
traditional allies in executing anti-submarine actions as part of the
aggressive 'Lets Contain China' strategies of forward force projection
in the Asia-Pacific region".
Secretary/Organiser
Anti-Bases Campaign