{"id":31680,"date":"2021-05-03T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T00:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/new-zealands-differences-with-china-becoming-harder-to-reconcile-jacinda-ardern-says"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T00:17:30","slug":"new-zealands-differences-with-china-becoming-harder-to-reconcile-jacinda-ardern-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31680","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s differences with China becoming \u2018harder to reconcile\u2019, Jacinda Ardern says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister has been coming under pressure from allies to take a tougher approach towards country\u2019s largest trading partner<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s differences with China are becoming \u201charder to reconcile,\u201d the prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said, as she called on China \u201cto act in the world in ways that are consistent with its responsibilities as a growing power\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern\u2019s comments were made as New Zealand\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/new-zealands-stance-on-china-has-deep-implications-for-the-five-eyes-alliance\">comes under increasing pressure<\/a>, both internally and from international allies, to take a firmer stance on concerns over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/uk-mps-declare-china-is-committing-genocide-against-uyghurs-in-xinjiang\">human rights abuses of Uyghur people<\/a> in China\u2019s Xinjiang province. Last week, the Act party presented a motion for New Zealand\u2019s parliament to debate whether the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang constitutes genocide \u2013 a motion that Labour will discuss this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/new-zealands-differences-with-china-becoming-harder-to-reconcile-jacinda-ardern-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister has been coming under pressure from allies to take a tougher approach towards country\u2019s largest trading partnerNew Zealand\u2019s differences with China are becoming \u201charder to reconcile,\u201d the prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said, as she ca&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,50,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31680","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31681,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31680\/revisions\/31681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}