{"id":55936,"date":"2023-06-13T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/13\/as-new-zealand-reshapes-ties-with-china-foreign-interference-must-be-brought-out-of-the-shadows"},"modified":"2023-06-13T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T01:24:01","slug":"as-new-zealand-reshapes-ties-with-china-foreign-interference-must-be-brought-out-of-the-shadows-sam-sachdeva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55936","title":{"rendered":"As New Zealand reshapes ties with China, foreign interference must be brought out of the shadows | Sam Sachdeva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Chris Hipkins\u2019 upcoming visit to China comes as New Zealand wrestles with how to prevent interference by the superpower and other states<\/p>\n<p>With more than $30bn of new spending, a mere $9m initiative in New Zealand\u2019s latest budget might seem too trivial to mention.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the New Zealand government\u2019s recent decision to fund an investigation into the impact of foreign interference on ethnic communities is a small step towards tackling an outsized problem: how to deal with meddling from foreign states, our largest trading partner included.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sam Sachdeva is New Zealand news site the Newsroom\u2019s national affairs editor and author of The China Tightrope, a newly released book about the changing China-New Zealand relationship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/13\/as-new-zealand-reshapes-ties-with-china-foreign-interference-must-be-brought-out-of-the-shadows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Chris Hipkins\u2019 upcoming visit to China comes as New Zealand wrestles with how to prevent interference by the superpower and other statesWith more than $30bn of new spending, a mere $9m initiative in New Zealand\u2019s latest budget might seem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3793,"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":[41,50,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55936","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\/3793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55937,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55936\/revisions\/55937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}