Former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key: New Zealand should speak calmly and rationally on issues related to China. International | New Zealand | China
International online news: This year marks the 10th anniversary of the joint construction of the "the Belt and Road" initiative. In 2017, New Zealand signed the "the Belt and Road" cooperation agreement with China, becoming the first signatory among western developed countries, and the cooperation between China and New Zealand has reached a higher level. In recent years, agreements such as the upgrading protocol of the China Singapore Free Trade Agreement and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement have come into effect, further consolidating the economic and trade relations between the two countries.
John Key served as the Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016. Before this visit to China, he had already experienced it ten times. In July of this year, he visited China again. During this visit, he accompanied representatives from multiple New Zealand companies to visit Beijing, Hainan, Hong Kong and other places to negotiate cooperation with local governments, and prepared for the New Zealand business delegation planning to come to China in September. He called this visit an effort to promote the two-way relationship between New China and China, and highly praised China's current development and optimistic about China's future development opportunities. Against the backdrop of some countries claiming to "decouple and break ties" with China in the current international community, John Key said, "New Zealand should speak calmly and rationally on issues related to China."