New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters is facing calls to step down after he attacked Bob Carr for calling AUKUS “fragrant, methane-wrapped bullshit”.
Bob Carr says he will sue New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters for defamation after Peters accused the former foreign minister of being a Chinese puppet.
The fracas was triggered by remarks in which Carr colourfully criticised the AUKUS pact during a visit to New Zealand last month, describing the technology-sharing element of the partnership as “fragrant, methane-wrapped bullshit”. An increasingly partisan debate has erupted in New Zealand about whether the country should seek to join pillar II of the AUKUS pact, which offers collaboration on advanced technologies such as hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence and quantum computing.In a fiery radio interview on Thursday, Peters, who serves as New Zealand’s foreign minister, fired back at Carr, describing him as “nothing more than a Chinese puppet”.
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