{"id":56234,"date":"2023-06-26T19:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T10:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/26\/new-zealand-pm-chris-hipkins-row-flying-to-china-backup-plane"},"modified":"2023-06-26T19:04:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T10:04:31","slug":"new-zealand-pm-sparks-row-after-flying-to-china-with-backup-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56234","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand PM sparks row after flying to China with backup plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reserve aircraft flew to Manila amid reliability concerns after ex-leaders Ardern and Key suffered breakdowns<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand defence force plane ferrying the country\u2019s prime minister to China this week has been judged so unreliable that a backup plane flew in reserve, prompting criticism of Chris Hipkins by the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The use of a backup plane follows previous mishaps involving aircraft carrying New Zealand leaders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/26\/new-zealand-pm-chris-hipkins-row-flying-to-china-backup-plane\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reserve aircraft flew to Manila amid reliability concerns after ex-leaders Ardern and Key suffered breakdownsThe New Zealand defence force plane ferrying the country\u2019s prime minister to China this week has been judged so unreliable that a backup plane &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"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":[41,2832,268,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chris-hipkins","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56234","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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56235,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56234\/revisions\/56235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}