New Zealand Joining the QUAD?

Meeting between the Foreign Ministers of New Zealand and Japan in 2018 (MOFA: Image).

New Zealand’s relationship with Japan has included a strategic partnership for some time. Back in 2018, New Zealand’s Defence White Paper discussed the important link between New Zealand’s security interests in the South Pacific and New Zealand’s relationship with Japan. A diplomatic meeting between foreign ministers in late 2019 included talks of issues ranging from the South China Sea and North Korea through to maritime issues within…