China testing missile into South Pacific is naked provocation
New Zealand warned by China of missile test in South Pacific, Winston Peters expresses concern
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says New Zealand is “deeply concerned” by China testing a “nuclear-capable” missile in the South Pacific, characterising it as inconsistent with peace in the region.
Chinese state media Xinhua on Monday night said the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy successfully conducted the test launch of a strategic missile by a submarine.
“The PLA Navy said that one strategic nuclear submarine of the navy successfully launched a strategic missile carrying a dummy warhead toward relevant high seas of the Pacific Ocean at 12:01 p.m., which landed precisely within the designated waters,” the agency said.
It described the test launch as a “routine arrangement” as part of the PLA Navy’s “annual training”, the same language used by China following a 2024 missile launch.
The agency said the Navy claimed the test launch “complies with international law and international practice, and is not directed at any specific country or target”.
Peters said China told New Zealand earlier today of its plan to launch a long-range ballistic missile into the South Pacific and then carried out the test “within hours of informing us”, despite “our long-standing concern about this type of activity”.
“New Zealand considers this an unwelcome and concerning development,” Peters said.
“We, like our neighbours in other Pacific countries, have no interest in China using the South Pacific as a testing site for missile capability.
NZ Herald
Our Economic Overlords are not happy.
China is doing this in response to the new Australia-Fiji Ocean of Peace Alliance.
NZ, thanks to the Agricultural Sector, are slavishly enslaved to China to buy our under processed logs and basic milk powder so anything that might endanger that will see Groundswell back on the streets with their Tractors demanding we fall to our knees for Emperor Xi.
Australia and Fiji agreeing to come to each others aid does not justify testing a missile off a nuclear sub…
Article 6 of the new treaty states that each party to the agreement “recognises that an armed attack on any of the parties within the Pacific would be dangerous to each other’s peace and security as well as the security of the Pacific, and declares that it would act to meet the common danger, in accordance with its domestic processes”.
…we have an increasingly aggressive China and an increasingly unhinged America.
We are New Zealanders.
We don’t want Wellington to be beholden to Washington or Beijing.
We should stand for an Independent State while understanding that stance demands more on military spending.
We are no longer in a benign environment.
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I would think most of us, who are considered “sane”, will agree with Martyn, James Brown, Dave Brown and Bonnie! The USA is NOT stable in any shape or form. It is run by a lunatic who is controlled by a murderous barbarian. Of course we should be distancing ourselves NOW from the USA – are you reading and understanding this Winston/Luxon! China is pointing this out to us with their intimidating, provocative tests. This one splashed down into International waters in the Sth Pacific between Nauru and Tuvalu. So Winston and Luxon, get this sorted before it gets any worse. While Netanyahu and Trump are in charge we are all unsafe and very, very vulnerable! Voters, come November your vote will be even more important now.
Winston is the only politician to go there.
Large numbers of immigrants vote for larger numbers of immigrants!
Why would it be in the interests of NZ citizens to allow non-naturalised migrants and dual passport holders to vote? If someone is not all in on NZ why grant them that privilege.
I’d see China closer to a Stalinesque dictatorship and America closer to a transitioning one party Apartheid State. Who’s side of those do you want to fight for? Martyn maybe right in the sense that we take on the role much like Switzerland did during the war and maintain armed neutrality, diplomacy and holding all the rich buggers crown jewels while they maul at each other.
The truth of the matter is that China is the Nazi Germany of the modern age and NZ will be very limited in regards to any possible future conflict with China in that we now have 100,000 + mainland-born Chinese living here whose allegiance is to the PRC and sure as shit not NZ.
Funny, I would have thought America repatriating white only Apartheid refugees fom South Africa, the gradual eradication of black history and selective cultural book burning would have fit closer go the Nazi bill.
Why do you think that China is arming itself? You would too if you were surrounded by an “unhinged” imperialist hegemon. Never heard of cause->effect? The US will be the death of us all if China cannot establish nuclear deterrence. Being unhinged in America means you think you can survive a nuclear war you have started. Who else believes that? Oh year Netanyahu the supreme magical thinker. So the world’s fate hinges on demented and genocidal tyrants. While we condemn China for firing a missile in the South Pacific, we have a US ambassador unashamedly touting for nuclear armaments so that the US deputy sheriffs of the South Pacific, the glorious ANZACS, can become the fourth ring of hostile nations surrounding China. We should be calling for an end to the military alliance with the US and for the right of China (just like Iran) to establish nuclear deterrence. Our allies are the workers and poor farmers of the Pacific who have the power to throw out their warmongering governments and replace them with governments that are committed to ending the rotten capitalist/imperialist system. We should be doing this yesterday, so we can have a tomorrow.
“If China cannot establish nuclear deterrence” – China has had nuclear weapons since the 60’s
“The glorious ANZACS” – Looks like we are on the same page there . .
Winston is two faced, the USA is run by a madman and supports genocide in Gaza and other bad things and he says nothing yet as soon as China does something he makes a fuss. China has issues and our dependance on them for trade requires discretion however I would say that they are more reliable than the USA and the theocratic state that it is becoming.
Yup Trump is a total fuckwit but at least in the US you can vote against him.
Considering he has plans to never leave the white house, elections there could turn out to be as farcicaly performative as North Korea or Russia’s elections.