{"id":40623,"date":"2022-01-14T12:47:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/14\/chinas-choice-of-ambassador-to-new-zealand-indicates-focus-on-deepening-economic-ties"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:47:09","slug":"chinas-choice-of-ambassador-to-new-zealand-indicates-focus-on-deepening-economic-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40623","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s choice of ambassador to New Zealand indicates focus on deepening economic ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Wang Xiaolong\u2019s prior role suggests Beijing keen to widen economic ties with New Zealand as diplomatic relationship becomes rockier<\/p>\n<p>A new Chinese ambassador who has previously worked on the country\u2019s controversial belt and road initiative (BRI) has arrived in New Zealand, prompting speculation Beijing is planning to focus on deepening economic ties with New Zealand as the two countries navigate growing diplomatic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Xiaolong, who replaced former ambassador Wu Xi, previously served as director-general of the Chinese Foreign Ministry\u2019s department of international economic affairs. In that role, Wang helped oversee the BRI \u2013 which seeks to deepen economic ties between China and other countries and is a key focus of President Xi Jinping. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/14\/chinas-choice-of-ambassador-to-new-zealand-indicates-focus-on-deepening-economic-ties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Wang Xiaolong\u2019s prior role suggests Beijing keen to widen economic ties with New Zealand as diplomatic relationship becomes rockierA new Chinese ambassador who has previously worked on the country\u2019s controversial belt and road initiative (BRI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2257,"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":[41,43,50,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","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\/40623","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\/2257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40624,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40623\/revisions\/40624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}