New Zealand Prime Minister Hipkins said that New Zealand needs to continue to continue New Zealand to continue New Zealand.In contact with the largest trading partner, China China, and emphasizing that dialogue is better than not to dialogue.
Reuters reported that Hipkins said on Friday (July 7) in a speech at the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs: "Maintain a solid, mature and complex relationship means that we must have difficulty in making difficultiesDialogue ... But I think there is a good conversation than not. "
He said that New Zealand needs to continue to contact China. When China has a challenge to New Zealand's national interests, New Zealand will definitelySay no to Beijing.
Hipkins just visited China a few days ago. He met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Qiang, focusing on discussing economic partnerships and trade issues of the two countries.Accompanying the New Zealand Minister of Trade and Tourism, as well as executives such as Hengnan and New Zealand Airlines.
During his visit to China, he did not have much concern in New Zealand's concerns about China's infringement of human rights in Xinjiang, so he was criticized by domestic.New Zealand Foreign Minister Marhota said in an interview with Reuters on June 30: "The relationship with China is complicated, and we must handle it very cautiously."
The second visit to China has focused on trade, and does not change the foreign policy of New Zealand. Instead, it shows that New Zealand has a series of attention to China.She said that the strategic competition between China and the United States has challenged the Pacific region, and New Zealand will manage important relationships in a way to safeguard national interests.