{"id":496269,"date":"2026-06-26T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/496269\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:18:10","slug":"this-was-expected-boss-of-india-nz-business-council-dismisses-peters-racism-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/496269\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This was expected&#8217;: Boss of India-NZ Business Council dismisses Peters&#8217; racism claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boss of the India New Zealand Business Council says he doesn&#8217;t believe claims by Winston Peters that the Government plans to discriminate against Indian migrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand First Leader claims the free trade deal with India will see the Government imposing stricter tests on Indian migrants that others aren&#8217;t subject to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trade Minister Todd McClay says Peters is wrong &#8211; and Edwin Paul agrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says Peters is playing politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paul says everybody knows the characters involved &#8211; and he expects hyperbole to continue until the election. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boss of the India New Zealand Business Council says he doesn&#8217;t believe claims by Winston Peters that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138,248327,248328,917,2344,203908,111,43,139,69,131078],"class_list":["post-496269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-business","tag-edwinpaul","tag-freetradeagreements","tag-immigration","tag-india","tag-indiafta","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-winstonpeters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496269","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=496269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}