Prime Minister John Key is ruling out New Zealand changing its spying arrangements in the Five Eyes agreement to avoid potential tension with our major trading partner China
Former US Intelligence advisor Paul Buchanan made the suggestion at a recent foreign policy conference, saying the Five Eyes deal could be renegotiated to this effect.
John Key said we gather intelligence when it's in New Zealand's interests to do so, and sometimes there are complicated, or specific, reasons why it's done.
"I don't think New Zealand's likely to go and say to its Five Eyes partners that various places are off-limits because we believe for our trading purposes we're not going to gather intelligence," Key said.
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