The FBI has opened a standalone office in New Zealand’s capital in part to improve the United States and New Zealand’s ability to counter China’s presence in the Pacific region, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Thursday. Patel said in a statement that opening a dedicated law enforcement attache office in Wellington would strengthen and enhance Washington’s longstanding co-operation with one of its key partners in the southwestern Pacific. “Some of the most important global issues of our times are the ones that New Zealand and America work on together – countering the CCP (the Communist Party of China) in the Indo PACOM theatre, countering the narcotics trade, working together against cyber intrusions and ransomware operations and most importantly protecting our respective citizenry,” he added in a video released by the U.S. Embassy in Wellington. The FBI has had a suboffice in New Zealand since 2017 and the two countries work closely on policing issues including child exploitation and organi
FBI opens office in New Zealand
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