Joining Aukus rests on your future outlook

Joining Aukus rests on your future outlook
US President Joe Biden and Australian PM Anthony Albanese shake hands during an Aukus meeting last year. (Image: Getty)
Peter Griffin
Everyone from former prime minister Helen Clark to one-time Act party leader Richard Prebble has, in recent days, slammed the government for considering joining the Aukus security alliance.Prebble wrote in the Herald this week that while the world has become “very dangerous”, alliances weren’t the answer in the lead-up to World War I, and they aren’t now.  “Before we join an anti-Chinese military agreement, we should ask, is China a strategic threat to New Zealand?” he wrote, getting quickly to the...

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