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NZ’s Ardern Repeats Her Warning of China’s Pacific Ambitions

  • PM says order that brought Pacific prosperity ‘is contested’
  • Repeats ‘increasingly assertive’ remark despite China’s rebuke
Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern

Photographer: Oliver Contreras/Sipa/Bloomberg

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has again raised concerns about China’s ambitions in the Pacific, repeating her comment that Beijing “has become increasingly assertive in our region.”

“In recent times, there has been growing interest in the Pacific,” Ardern said in a speech at Chatham House in London on Friday. “The foreign policy position of some of the significant members of our region has changed. The order that has brought the region prosperity over the past 80 years is contested.”