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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Guys! Guys! It’s ok! Because someone else did something similar! I am very intelligent 😎

[–] livus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China is New Zealand's main trading partner, but New Zealand is also part of the 5 Eyes spying pact with US, UK, Australia and Canada. So it walks a narrow path.

New Zealand intelligence report also accuses light of being 'like, really really fast'.

[–] summarizer@group.lt 1 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


New Zealand’s intelligence service has accused China of foreign interference in its democracy, amid increasing tensions and geopolitical competition in the region.

Friday’s public threat assessment points to “increased strategic competition” in the Indo-Pacific region as driving the interference from China.

Beijing’s “efforts to advance its political, economic, military and security involvement in the Pacific is a major factor driving strategic competition in our home region,” it says.

In previous security overview reports, NZSIS has spoken broadly about having gathered evidence of interference and espionage activities in New Zealand by foreign states and agents, but not named specific countries or governments.

In one case study – not attributed to a specific state – it said “an undeclared foreign intelligence officer … targeted and sought to cultivate a New Zealander with access to information and people networks of interest to the foreign state [and] almost certainly sought to obtain political, economic and national security intelligence through the relationship.”

On the threat from Iran, the agency said it had detected state actors “monitoring and providing reporting on Iranian communities and dissident groups”.


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[–] purahna@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did they have any other countries in the running? And if so, did they cross compare measures of foreign interference between them? Just curious, want to make sure this report is as scientific as possible and fair and impartial