{"id":552242,"date":"2026-07-31T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552242\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:40:09","slug":"china-calls-for-respect-after-new-zealand-foreign-ministers-tirade-asia-news-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552242\/","title":{"rendered":"China calls for respect after New Zealand foreign minister\u2019s tirade \u2013 Asia News Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#999 !important\">  July 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING \u2013 China called on \u201crelevant people in New Zealand\u201d not to make China an issue for domestic political purposes, and do more things that are conducive to bilateral friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning made the remarks on Thursday following the negative remarks by New Zealand\u2019s Foreign Minister Winston Peters against a Chinese-born opposition lawmaker at a parliamentary debate.<\/p>\n<p>A relevant official in charge of the Chinese Embassy in New Zealand lodged solemn representations with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>China always believes that it is important to respect the development paths and systems chosen by the people of every country, and opposes any form of discrimination and prejudice, Mao said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 31, 2026 BEIJING \u2013 China called on \u201crelevant people in New Zealand\u201d not to make China an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-552242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552242","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=552242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}