Christopher Luxon defends New Zealand's increased defence spending, dismissing accusations of freeloading off US military support and emphasizing strategic risks from regional power shifts and disrupted shipping routes.
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The shipping routes are a key part of it. Um obviously freedom of navigation matters tremendously to us. That's why we're standing up on Hormuz, because actually that's the key principle there that you should be able to move product freely without paying tolls because lo and behold, we end up with tolls in the Malacca Strait or in the South China Sea or other parts of the world uh when we export a lot of product around the world, that's not good. So that's why countries like Singapore and us are really and others and our friends are all very strong on that. Yeah. About about 51 countries we're trying to think about that issue together.
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