{"id":144403,"date":"2025-11-20T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144403\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:24:08","slug":"third-highest-ranking-member-of-chinese-government-visits-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144403\/","title":{"rendered":"Third-highest-ranking member of Chinese Government visits Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">About 100 supporters were on Parliament\u2019s lawn waving flags, while a small group of protesters was on the other side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The two sides were separated by fences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Zhao and his delegation were welcomed into Parliament\u2019s Grand Hall with a p\u014dwhiri.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Supporters of the Chinese Government outside Parliament during Zhao Leji's visit. Photo \/ Giles Dexter\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Supporters of the Chinese Government outside Parliament during Zhao Leji&#8217;s visit. Photo \/ Giles Dexter<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Brownlee took Zhao through the history of New Zealand and its democratic systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">He said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/editorial-china-trade-precious-and-precarious\/J7QPS7IWIBDYJDPFXZNYFW75MQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/editorial-china-trade-precious-and-precarious\/J7QPS7IWIBDYJDPFXZNYFW75MQ\/\">it was an \u201chonour\u201d that representatives from a country as old and populous as China had made the visit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe willingness that you have to embrace discussions with us, trade with us, and people relations with us is very welcome,\u201d Brownlee said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Zhao, remarking that he felt \u201cvery warm\u201d in his korowai, praised the relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">He said despite the \u201cchanging international landscape\u201d, China and New Zealand enjoyed a mutual understanding and close bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">On Thursday morning, Zhao made a courtesy call on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">He is also expected to unveil a plaque at the opening ceremony of the Rewi Alley Memorial Museum in Christchurch on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/579518\/third-highest-ranking-member-of-chinese-government-visits-parliament\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/579518\/third-highest-ranking-member-of-chinese-government-visits-parliament\">RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 100 supporters were on Parliament\u2019s lawn waving flags, while a small group of protesters was on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4444,266,1329,111,43,139,69,1118,24637,97307,14450],"class_list":{"0":"post-144403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-chinese","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-member","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-of","16":"tag-parliament","17":"tag-thirdhighestranking","18":"tag-visits"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}