{"id":48300,"date":"2026-04-19T00:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=48300"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:04:37","slug":"nz-defends-military-patrol-flight-near-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=48300","title":{"rendered":"NZ defends military patrol flight near China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>New Zealand on Saturday defended the actions of a military patrol aircraft flight near China after Beijing said it had undermined its security interests.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s foreign ministry said on Friday that a New Zealand P-8A patrol aircraft had &#8220;conducted continuous close-in reconnaissance and harassment in the airspace and waters of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The action undermined China&#8217;s security interests, increased risks of misunderstanding and miscalculation, and gravely disrupted the order of civil aviation,&#8221; spokesperson Guo Jiakun said, according to an official transcript.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the claim, the New Zealand Defence Force said a Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft &#8220;has been undertaking activities that monitor North Korean sanctions evasions at sea in North Asia under UN Security Council resolutions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The New Zealand Defence Force crew operated professionally and in accordance with international law and civil aviation procedures for the region,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand on Saturday defended the actions of a military patrol aircraft flight near China after Beijing said it had undermined its security interests. China&#8217;s foreign ministry said on Friday that a New Zealand P-8A patrol aircraft had &#8220;conducted continuous close-in reconnaissance and harassment in the airspace and waters of the Yellow Sea and East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}