Patel has spent recent days in the capital Wellington meeting with senior government ministers as well as intelligence bosses ...

That's despite the claim being made by the agency's director who says countering the Chinese Communist Party is one of the top priorities in the Indo-Pacific region.

FBI Director Kash Patel has discovered multiple "burn bags" filled with thousands of classified documents linked to the bureau's Trump-Russia probe, known internally as 'Crossfire Hurricane'.