SYDNEY: New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters has raised concerns about “strategic anxiety” in the Pacific—a veiled reference to China’s growing influence among the region’s island nations.

Peters said New Zealand’s center-left government, which took power in October, would renew its foreign policy focus on the Pacific islands.

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