Australia learned about Chinese live-fire naval drills off the country’s coast that forced dozens of flights to be diverted via an alert from a commercial pilot, authorities said on Monday.

The three Chinese ships were south of Tasmania ... landed near French Polynesia’s exclusive economic zone, of which “most Pacific Island nations got no warning at all” and New Zealand ...

The three Chinese ships were south of Tasmania ... the New Zealand Defence Force said Wednesday. Peters said he also raised China's missile launch test last September that landed near French ...

The defence minister says the presence of Chinese warships carrying out live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea is "unusual", but nothing Kiwis need to be worried about.