Lowy Institute: New Zealand had long been considered the weakest link in Five Eyes and the easiest for China to try to cow. But New Zealand has now called out China by name in its intelligence warnings so often that officials joke it has become tougher on Beijing than Australia is.
…Spy services with “a voracious appetite” for information – especially those from China – have dramatically stepped-up efforts to gain an advantage over New Zealand and its partners, it warns. The efforts to get information about critical assets “cannot be described as benign”…