LUO ZIYUE/FOR CHINA DAILY This year marks the 10th anniversary of the China-New Zealand comprehensive strategic partnership. In 2022, New Zealand's cooperation agreement with China on the BRI was automatically renewed, extending New Zealand's BRI cooperation with China for another five years. Notably, New Zealand was the first developed Western country to support China's accession to the World Trade Organization …
In April 2021, New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta likened the New Zealand-China relationship to “the respect a Taniwha would have for a Dragon and vice versa.” Mahuta’s speech was one of the more recent attempts to articulate the complicated and delicate nature of the bilateral relationship between China and New Zealand. The foreign minister’s Dragon-Taniwha metaphor left a lot …
In February 2018, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters quipped to the New Zealand Parliament that “the art of diplomacy is to jump into troubled waters without making a splash.” Since 2017, the New Zealand government has attempted to make a calculated correction in its relationship with the People’s Republic of China, without any deterioration in New Zealand’s overall relationship …
