New Zealand’s government must acknowledge China’s importance as a trading partner and “find some room” to improve troubled relations between the two countries, a leading academic has said.
Robert Ayson, professor of strategic studies at Victoria University of Wellington, says NZ would be ill advised to follow the Australian government’s recent policy shift and “view China as an unrelenting full-spectrum menace”.
His comments refer to Australian government warnings about China’s increasing influence in the Pacific.
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