New Zealand has a range of interests with China, said foreign minister Mahuta. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WELLINGTON - New Zealand is carefully managing its relationship with China and must avoid getting pulled from “pillar and post” amid the strategic rivalry between China and the United States, the Pacific nation’s foreign minister said on Friday.Prime Minister Chris Hipkins nears the end of a six-day visit to China
“China’s a complex relationship that we manage very carefully,” Ms Mahuta said in an interview with Reuters. “I’m under no shadow of a doubt that trade and economic issues would have been discussed, human rights issues, the war in Ukraine,” Ms Mahuta said.A spokesman for China’s embassy in New Zealand said last week that during the past five decades, “through joint efforts and based on mutual respect, seeking commonality while shelving differences” the relationship between the two countries had come a long way.
Her trip came under scrutiny this week when The Australian said she had received an hour-long dressing down from her counterpart. She has described the meeting as “very robust”. At the meeting, she said, she noted “deep concerns regarding the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the erosion of rights and freedoms in Hong Kong”.
An outdoor screen in Beijing coverage of New Zealand’s PM Chris Hipkins meeting China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, on June 27. PHOTO: AFP
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