New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Warns Exporters to Diversify Trade Away From China

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Warns Exporters to Diversify Trade Away From China
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta talks to media during a press conference at Parliament on April 22, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
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New Zealand’s foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta has warned the country’s exporters to diversify trade away from Beijing or risk being at the centre of a “storm” provoked by Beijing’s ire.

In an interview with the Guardian on Monday, Mahuta said New Zealand could hardly stay out of the tensions between neighbouring Australia and the Communist Chinese regime.