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New Zealand will continue to cooperate with ‘more assertive’ China, Ardern says

Jacinda Ardern at a lectern with the New Zealand flag behind her
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern at a press conference last month. She is planning a trip to China to ‘seize new opportunities for dialogue’. Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

New Zealand will continue to cooperate on “shared interests” with China, even as tensions increase in the region and China grows “more assertive in the pursuit of its interests”, Jacinda Ardern has said.

Speaking to the China Business Summit in Auckland on Monday, the prime minister said she was planning a trip to China “to seize new opportunities for dialogue,” support the trade relationship, and further cooperate on the climate crisis.

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