{"id":56268,"date":"2023-06-27T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T11:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/27\/xi-jinping-praises-great-importance-of-china-new-zealand-relations"},"modified":"2023-06-27T20:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T11:52:16","slug":"xi-jinping-praises-great-importance-of-china-new-zealand-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56268","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping praises \u2018great importance\u2019 of China-New Zealand relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid rising global tensions, Chinese leader tells PM, Chris Hipkins, his visit to Beijing is meaningful<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping has praised the \u201cgreat importance\u201d of China\u2019s relationship with its \u201cfriend and partner\u201d New Zealand, as Chris Hipkins visits Beijing to promote trade amid growing geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the two leaders met in the Chinese capital on Tuesday evening, Xi told reporters through an interpreter: \u201cI myself [am] attaching great importance to our relations with New Zealand,\u201d and \u201cChina always views New Zealand as a friend and a partner\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/27\/xi-jinping-praises-great-importance-of-china-new-zealand-relations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid rising global tensions, Chinese leader tells PM, Chris Hipkins, his visit to Beijing is meaningfulXi Jinping has praised the \u201cgreat importance\u201d of China\u2019s relationship with its \u201cfriend and partner\u201d New Zealand, as Chris Hipkins visits Beijing to p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,50,2832,56,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chris-hipkins","category-new-zealand","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56268","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56269,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56268\/revisions\/56269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}