New Zealand's engagement with China is clear-eyed

New Zealand’s engagement with China is clear-eyed
The Ardern government has every right to pursue New Zealand’s national interest in engaging with China. Its stance on Five Eyes is smart and principled, and not merely self-serving.
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It takes some doing for a democratically elected government in the West to be praised by the
Global Times, Beijing’s populist mouthpiece, in the current climate.
Yet the Ardern government has managed to do just that, and on several occasions this year.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta is following a different diplomatic path to Australia. 
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This started in mid-January, following New Zealand’s decision not to join its Five Eyes alliance partners in jointly criticising the arrest of pro-democracy activists under the new National Security Law in Hong Kong. Instead, Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta tweeted her concern, accompanying a formal statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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