New Zealand Foreign Minister in Racism Row with Chinese Ambassador
The ambassador said Peters’ remark said more about him than anyone else after the foreign minister told a Chinese-born lawmaker to leave New Zealand.
- On Wednesday, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters told Green Party MP Lawrence Xu-Nan to "go back to your own country" during a parliamentary debate about the Covid-19 response.
- Xu-Nan had asked Peters "Are you vaccinated?" during the general debate, prompting the Foreign Minister's heated response accusing the lawmaker of arriving "five minutes ago."
- Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Wang Xiaolong issued a rare rebuke on Thursday, writing on X that "sometimes, a statement says more about the person that makes it than anything or anybody else."
- Peters and his NZ First party have faced criticism for similar remarks; deputy Shane Jones shouted "send the Mexicans home" at MP Francisco Hernandez last year.
- The Chinese embassy in Wellington confirmed on Thursday it lodged an official complaint with New Zealand's foreign ministry over what it described as "negative China-related remarks made by a certain politician.
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Beijing's embassy in New Zealand said on Thursday it had lodged a formal complaint after the country's foreign minister, Winston Peters, told a Chinese lawmaker to "go back to your country."
Chinese protest after NZ official taunts lawmaker
Beijing’s embassy in New Zealand yesterday said it had raised an official complaint after New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters told a lawmaker of Chinese descent to “go back to your own country.” Populist NZ First leader Peters was asked by China-born Green Party member Lawrence Xu
(Hanoi=Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Jin-hyung = New Zealand's Foreign Minister, a member of a right-wing populist party, [made] abusive remarks to a Chinese lawmaker, such as "Go back to your country. You idiot"...
China protests over New Zealand foreign minister's jibe at Chinese-born lawmaker
China made a diplomatic protest to New Zealand on Thursday (July 30) after Foreign Minister Winston Peters characterised a Chinese-born lawmaker as a "loudmouth" whom he urged to "go back to your own country" during a debate in parliament.Peters, the leader of the populist New Zealand First party, made the remarks during Wednesday's debate on the government's response to the...
The Chinese government has lodged a formal protest with New Zealand after Foreign Minister Winston Peters told Members of Parliament of Chinese descent to "go back to your country."
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