{"id":21203,"date":"2020-07-31T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T03:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/new-zealands-relationship-with-china-is-at-a-tipping-point"},"modified":"2020-07-31T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T03:09:54","slug":"new-zealands-relationship-with-china-is-at-a-tipping-point-anne-marie-brady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21203","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s relationship with China is at a tipping point | Anne-Marie Brady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More needs to be done to limit Beijing\u2019s political interference and any short-term damage will be worth it in the long run<\/p>\n<p>This week New Zealand announced it was suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong as a result of Hong Kong\u2019s new national security law. At the same time, NZ changed its policy on military and dual-use goods and technology exports to Hong Kong, subjecting the city to the same as the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC). The New Zealand government also issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/safetravel.govt.nz\/news\/hong-kong-demonstrations-and-national-security-legislation\">travel warning to New Zealanders<\/a> on the risks of travelling to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Wellington said it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/new-zealand-suspends-extradition-treaty-hong-kong\">can no longer trust<\/a> that Hong Kong\u2019s criminal justice system is sufficiently independent from China.\u201d No explanation was given for the suspension of sensitive technology exports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/new-zealands-relationship-with-china-is-at-a-tipping-point\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More needs to be done to limit Beijing\u2019s political interference and any short-term damage will be worth it in the long runThis week New Zealand announced it was suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong as a result of Hong Kong\u2019s new national se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":866,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21204,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21203\/revisions\/21204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}