{"id":56147,"date":"2023-06-22T14:56:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T05:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/22\/new-zealand-pm-disagrees-with-joe-biden-over-xi-jinping-dictator-remark"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:56:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T05:56:41","slug":"new-zealand-pm-disagrees-with-joe-biden-over-xi-jinping-dictator-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56147","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand PM disagrees with Joe Biden over Xi Jinping \u2018dictator\u2019 remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hipkins, who is about to meet the Chinese president on a trip to Beijing for the first time, said China\u2019s system of government is \u2018a matter for them\u2019<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins has disagreed with US President Joe Biden\u2019s remark that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jun\/21\/joe-biden-calls-chinese-president-xi-jinping-dictator-antony-blinken-china-visit\"> Xi Jinping is a \u201cdictator\u201d<\/a>, as he prepares to meet the Chinese leader on an official trade trip to China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, and the form of government that China has is a matter for the Chinese people,\u201d Hipkins told reporters when asked about Biden\u2019s description. Asked whether the Chinese people had a say in the form their government took, he said: \u201cif they wanted to change their system of government, then that would be a matter for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/22\/new-zealand-pm-disagrees-with-joe-biden-over-xi-jinping-dictator-remark\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hipkins, who is about to meet the Chinese president on a trip to Beijing for the first time, said China\u2019s system of government is \u2018a matter for them\u2019New Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins has disagreed with US President Joe Biden\u2019s remark that &#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":[41,50,2832,939,56,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chris-hipkins","category-joe-biden","category-new-zealand","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56147","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=56147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56148,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56147\/revisions\/56148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}