{"id":37550,"date":"2021-10-02T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/02\/nz-opposition-leader-says-us-and-uk-left-door-open-for-china-in-indo-pacific"},"modified":"2021-10-02T04:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T19:00:38","slug":"nz-opposition-leader-says-us-and-uk-left-door-open-for-china-in-indo-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37550","title":{"rendered":"NZ opposition leader says US and UK \u2018left door open\u2019 for China in Indo-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Collins criticises America as \u2018foolish\u2019 for walking away from free trade agreements<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s opposition leader has hit out at the US and UK over China, saying their failure to adopt free trade agreements was \u201cfoolish\u201d and increased Chinese dominance in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf any criticism comes to New Zealand, as it often does about this close relationship with China and trade, my answer to everybody \u2013 whether they\u2019re the US or UK \u2013 is: \u2018So where\u2019s our free trade agreement?\u2019,\u201d Judith Collins, leader of the centre-right National party, said in an interview with the Guardian on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/02\/nz-opposition-leader-says-us-and-uk-left-door-open-for-china-in-indo-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Collins criticises America as \u2018foolish\u2019 for walking away from free trade agreementsNew Zealand\u2019s opposition leader has hit out at the US and UK over China, saying their failure to adopt free trade agreements was \u201cfoolish\u201d and increased Chinese d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2378,"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":[41,50,1700,56,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-judith-collins","category-new-zealand","category-us-news","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\/37550","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\/2378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37551,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37550\/revisions\/37551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}