A discussion on whether New Zealand should adopt Ukrainian drone technology for defence, framed around emerging warfare trends, domestic industry capacity, and the realistic likelihood of conflict in the region.
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How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 3 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
Tell me, Robert, what what are we cause because your mate who you quoted before said basically we need to get in chuck the billion dollars at the drones because there's going to be a world war. But realistically, are we actually going to end up in a situation where we are fighting to defend ourselves in New Zealand? Because the most likely thing that's going to happen in our part of the world is China takes Taiwan and we aren't going to be able to stop that. So what's the risk to us?
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existing local expertise underutilized
Robert Patman: Otago University Professor for International Relations on Ukraine offering New Zealand a deal to build military dronesSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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