How NZ can warm up the new cold war

How NZ can warm up the new cold war
Warm welcome, chilly policy: PM Jacinda Ardern and China's president Xi Jinping meet in 2019 in Beijing. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
Someone at the Chinese embassy in Wellington may have felt justified in pouring a little tot of the mysterious fire water that visitors are often given on official trips to China, following Sunday’s Newshub evening broadcast.Most of the news about New Zealand-China relations these days focuses on political tensions in the South Pacific, human rights abuses in Xinjiang and other parts of China, or any number of hiccups in the trade and economic relationship.But here was a 100% good news story about collaboration between Chinese and NZ scie...

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