{"id":510925,"date":"2026-07-05T13:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510925\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:41:16","slug":"brigitte-morton-why-is-prime-minister-modi-visiting-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510925\/","title":{"rendered":"Brigitte Morton: Why is Prime Minister Modi visiting New Zealand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A historic visit is just the latest in a chain of landmark developments that are seeing us forge closer ties with India.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Narendra Modi will arrive in Auckland next week &#8211; marking the first time an Indian Prime Minister has ventured to our shores in four decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It comes on the heels of our countries signing a free trade agreement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Political commentator Brigitte Morton says it&#8217;s a good sign for the trade agreement between both nations &#8211; and it could be seen as a positive move for New Zealand&#8217;s Indian communities, given certain comments made by NZ First.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A historic visit is just the latest in a chain of landmark developments that are seeing us forge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38969,2344,111,43,139,69,254296,584],"class_list":["post-510925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-chrisluxon","tag-india","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-primeministernarendramodi","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510925","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=510925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}