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The Prime Minister's standing by New Zealand's planned defence spending after Pete Hegseth's accused New Zealand of freeloading off the American military.
The US Secretary of War has used a global security summit in Singapore to call on US allies to lift defence spending to 3.5% of GDP.
He says New Zealand's goal to bring defence spending to 2% of GDP within the next eight years doesn't go far enough.
Christopher Luxon told Heather du Plessis-Allan we are absolutely not freeloaders, and he's proud of the plan New Zealand has set.
He says we choose our defence spending, no one else does, as we have our own independent foreign policy.
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