PM never saw Peters' pro-US speech before delivery

PM never saw Peters' pro-US speech before delivery
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie Dec. 17 (BusinessDesk) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her deputy and Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, did not show her the speech he gave last weekend in Washington DC where he appeared to shift New Zealand's positioning in the Pacific region more towards support for the United States and away from China. Speaking at her last post-Cabinet press conference for the year, Ardern pushed back at the suggestion she might have expected to see a speech relating to the government's flagship "Pacific reset" foreign policy...