FBI opens first office in New Zealand ‘to counter China and cybercrime’

You'd think you could do that from practically any where, unless they're actually bolstering local server security, which I doubt.

I really wonder when we (Australia and New Zealand) will wake up to the massive geopolitical risk it is to be tied to any one super power.

As middling powers (well, us, not New Zealand), we really ought to not attach ourselves to the US.