US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell praises NZ as 'essential' to US interests, argues for more maritime defence spending

US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell praises NZ as 'essential' to US interests, argues for more maritime defence spending
Kurt Campbell says NZ can make a contribution to shared interests in the maritime domain. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Dileepa Fonseka
United States Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell has singled out New Zealand as an “essential ingredient” in the superpower’s re-engagement with the Pacific. “The country that has given us the most able counsel about how to step nimbly, how to listen carefully, how to execute efficiently and effectively is NZ," he said, at a press conference in Auckland on Friday.“And so I'm not at all shy about saying that they have been the central essential ingredient in our step up in the Pacific.”Campb...

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