{"id":433756,"date":"2021-04-20T09:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=433756"},"modified":"2021-04-20T09:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:39:50","slug":"top-u-s-ally-begins-to-prioritize-relationship-with-communist-china-over-alliance-with-western-allies-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-u-s-ally-begins-to-prioritize-relationship-with-communist-china-over-alliance-with-western-allies-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Top U.S. Ally Begins To Prioritize Relationship With Communist China Over Alliance With Western Allies: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-u-s-ally-begins-to-prioritize-relationship-with-communist-china-over-alliance-with-western-allies-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=433756&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2677.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>New Zealand has started to grow sour on joining its Five Eyes allies \u2014 the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia \u2014 in criticizing communist China as it seeks to develop a closer relationship with China, its largest trading partner.<\/p>\n<p>Five Eyes, an intelligence alliance comprised of the aforementioned five nations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/newly-disclosed-nsa-documents-shed-further-light-five-eyes-alliance\">emerged<\/a> from spying alliances that were forged during World War II. The alliance has sought to expand its coordination to combat the rising threat and horrifying human rights abuses being committed by China, which New Zealand is not comfortable with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Zealand\u2019s foreign minister said she would not allow the intelligence alliance to dictate the country\u2019s dealings with China, putting it at odds with the other members\u201d of the group, The Telegraph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/04\/19\/five-eyes-become-four-new-zealand-takes-different-view-china\">reported<\/a>. \u201cNew Zealand\u2019s attempts to now distance itself from the Five Eyes alliance will inevitably open up [Prime Minister Jacinda] Ardern to allegations that her administration is ignoring abuses in Hong Kong and against Uyghur Muslims in order to preserve and grow its trading relationship with China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said that the island nation, which sits approximately 1,000 miles southeast of Australia, was uncomfortable expanding the scope of Five Eyes to combat the rise and threat of communist China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have raised with Five Eyes partners that we are uncomfortable with expanding the remit of the Five Eyes relationship,\u201d Mahuta said. \u201cWe would much rather prefer looking for multilateral opportunities to express our interests on a number of issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Zealand has been very clear not to invoke the Five Eyes as the first point of contact on messaging out on a range of issues that really exist outside of the remit of the Five Eyes,\u201d Mahuta said. \u201cWe have not favored that type of approach and have expressed that to Five Eyes partners. What we would prefer is looking for other supports in the region that may or may not be those countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-04-19\/new-zealand-tells-five-eyes-partners-stick-to-intelligence\">reported<\/a> that New Zealand didn\u2019t join a statement from the other Five Eyes members earlier this year about China\u2019s crackdown in Hong Kong. While New Zealand sought to stress that this was not \u201ca fracturing of the relationship,\u201d political commentators in Australia and elsewhere expressed concern over the latest development.<\/p>\n<p>Sky News host James Morrow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pwafork\/status\/1384053944393949193\">commented<\/a> on the story by calling New Zealand \u201cNew Xi-land,\u201d while Sky News commentator Rita Panahi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RitaPanahi\/status\/1384427795137196034\">said<\/a> that the organization should be restructured into \u201cFour Eyes alliance\u201d because \u201cNZ is a liability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand has started to grow sour on joining its Five Eyes allies \u2014 the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia \u2014 in criticizing communist China as it seeks &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276196,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2677.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Top U.S. Ally Begins To Prioritize Relationship With Communist China Over Alliance With Western Allies: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2677.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Top U.S. Ally Begins To Prioritize Relationship With Communist China Over Alliance With Western Allies: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}