NZ joins new group that ‘might be answer’ to US exhausting weapons in a war
“New Zealand has joined a new United States-led Indo-Pacific group that ‘directly supports’ America’s national industrial defence strategy to boost ‘warfighting’ capabilities.”
“The US says the new Partnership for Indo-Pacific Industrial Resilience is about ‘better integrating our defence industries’.”
“The 13-country group was set up in June and had its first meeting, hosted by the US military, in Honolulu in October.”
“The Partnership for Indo-Pacific Industrial Resilience includes some NATO countries and is modelled on a heavy armaments forum set up to bolster Ukraine in the Russia war.”
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