Business must be aware of Chinese balancing act
Politics: Foreign Affairs Minister concerned at how China is asserting itself in the region.
Brent Edwards
Thu, 22 Apr 2021
Politics: Foreign Affairs Minister concerned at how China is asserting itself in the region.
New Zealand has always faced a delicate balancing act in its relationship with China, but it now appears to be getting increasingly shaky.
Criticising human rights abuses in China while cultivating the emerging superpower as a lucrative market has never been easy. Successive prime ministers have