a Russian test-run was suspected<\/a>.<\/p>\nChristopher Luxon said in a pre-Budget speech, “International relations are moving from an economic focus to one dominated by security concerns.<\/p>\n
“Competition now means cyber-attacks, disinformation, supply chain coercion, and grey-zone operations are primary tools of statecraft.”<\/p>\n
RNZ asked under the Official Information Act for the advice Luxon has received on grey-zones and a summary of any initiatives or research done.<\/p>\n
A newly received OIA response says there are several documents in scope but his office will not release any of them, or even their titles, on various grounds, including national security.<\/p>\n
“No public interest has been identified that would be sufficient to outweigh the reasons for withholding that information,” it said.<\/p>\n
The problem analysts say is how to deter such acts without sparking a broader conflict.<\/p>\n
In a separate statement a spokesperson for Luxon said New Zealand was seeing states deploying grey-zone operations as an instrument of statecraft.<\/p>\n
“Grey-zone operations are typically defined as hostile actions that fall short of warfare and include things like the sabotage of sub-sea infrastructure, such as cables and pipelines, that has occurred in the Baltic Sea or coercive on-water maritime tactics that disrupt shipping, as we have seen in the Strait of Hormuz,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“These types of activities undermine the global security order.”<\/p>\n
The country was focused on preventing cyber-attacks, as well as upping defence capabilities to respond to grey-zone operations, they added.<\/p>\n
In June the government announced the rollout of a 24\/7 monitoring system for undersea telecommunications cables. A vessel getting too close to a cable will trigger an alert and warning.<\/p>\n
Most cable breaks are accidental but their vulnerability to grey-zone sabotage has triggered global alarm and surveillance in the last couple of years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prime Minister has said “grey-zone” operations are being deployed by states but he won’t release the advice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-540702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}