Chinese state-run media has noted New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s softer stance towards China in her recent major foreign policy speech.
The Global Times, a Chinese regime mouthpiece, claimed in an article that this softer language towards Beijing signalled that Australia’s “wishful thinking” to “rally” New Zealand against China had stalled.
Ardern said in her speech to the Lowy Institute on July 7 that despite the increasing assertiveness of Beijing, there were “still shared interests on which we can and should cooperate.”
The prime minister also argued that many countries, including China, had played a role in the Pacific region for many years….
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