{"id":5882,"date":"2023-06-26T07:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2023-06-26T07:31:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:31:08","slug":"prime-minister-chris-hipkins-touches-down-in-beijing-for-make-or-break-china-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5882","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Chris Hipkins touches down in Beijing for make or break China trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Prime Minister Chris Hipkins touched down in Beijing in the early hours of this morning, beginning a week-long tour of China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hipkins landed at about 2.30am New Zealand time and was met at the airport by New Zealand\u2019s ambassador to Beijing Grahame Morton and a welcoming committee of Chinese soldiers and officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On the tarmac, Hipkins was met by China\u2019s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He arrives in China at a pivotal point in the Russia-Ukraine war, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin saw his authority challenged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Chris Hipkins touched down in Beijing in the early hours of this morning, beginning a week-long tour of China. Hipkins landed at about 2.30am New Zealand time and was met at the airport by New Zealand\u2019s ambassador to Beijing Grahame Morton and a welcoming committee of Chinese soldiers and officials. On the tarmac, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}