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.
leading a trade delegation, which included meetings with China President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang focusing on economic partnership and trade.
“China's a complex relationship that we manage very carefully,” Mahuta said in an interview with Reuters. In a statement after Hipkins' meeting with Xi, there was no mention of human rights concerns or the Taiwan Strait. Both were noted in“I'm under no shadow of a doubt that trade and economic issues would have been discussed, human rights issues, the war in Ukraine,” Mahuta said.
New Zealand has long been seen as a moderate or even absent voice on China in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance.
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