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Author: Jamie Ensor

China is "surprised" New Zealand has weighed into a tense war of words between the Middle Kingdom and Australia over a graphic Twitter image, asking what business it is of Aotearoa's.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday demanded an apology from China after the Asian nation's foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian posted an inflammatory image on Twitter.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/china-surprised-new-zealand-weighed-into-australian-soldier-image-debate.html
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Author: Jane Patterson,

New Zealand has weighed into the escalating row between China and Australia, formally registering its concern last night with Chinese authorities about a tweet of a image depicting an Australian soldier.

China is brushing off calls for it to apologise for a foreign ministry official's tweet with a faked photo of an Australian soldier holding a knife to an Afghan child's throat.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/431856/new-zealand-registers-concern-with-china-over-official-s-unfactual-tweet
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Author: Tova O'Brien

New Zealand has waded into an almighty and dangerous scrap between Australia and China - taking the side of our closest mates, the Aussies.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the Government has directly raised concerns with China over a graphic fake tweet showing an Australian soldier, and National has gone even further calling China immature, incendiary and abhorrent.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/12/jacinda-ardern-chooses-words-carefully-as-new-zealand-wades-into-almighty-scrap-between-australia-and-china.html
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Author: Jamie Ensor

A Uighur human rights activist has claimed Donald Trump leaving the White House has left her community "fearful" and written about her desire to see countries take a "hard line" against China. 

Rahima Mahmut is a UK-based Uighur activist and translator who works with the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) and World Uyghur Congress. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/uighur-leader-fears-no-one-will-stand-up-for-them-now-donald-trump-leaving-white-house.html
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Author: Rachel Sadler

Chinese health officials shared more optimistic data on its early coronavirus cases than they had access to internally, according to leaked documents.

The total number of daily confirmed and suspected case numbers and the number of deaths reported were some pieces of data that weren't fully shared with the public.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/coronavirus-leaked-documents-show-china-s-data-fumblings-in-early-stages-of-pandemic.html
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Author: Jamie Ensor

New Zealand has directly expressed concern with China over a foreign ministry spokesperson posting an image on Twitter purporting to show an Australian soldier holding a knife to a child.

On Monday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called the image, posted online by Zhao Lijian, "repugnant" and said the Chinese Government should be "utterly ashamed". 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/12/new-zealand-raises-concern-directly-with-china-over-fake-australian-soldier-image.html
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Author: Grant Duncan for The Conversation

The recurring metaphor of New Zealand as "experiment" or "social laboratory" might go back to the 1890s, but it continues to resonate in the 21st century.

Australian political journalist Laura Tingle has revived the venerable idea in the latest edition of the Quarterly Essay, The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/11/trans-tasman-relationship-what-australia-can-learn-from-new-zealand.html
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