{"id":53359,"date":"2024-06-13T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T07:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53359"},"modified":"2024-06-13T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T07:14:39","slug":"chinese-premier-li-starts-new-zealand-australia-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53359","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Premier Li starts New Zealand, Australia visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chinese Premier Li Qiang touted trade and &#8220;friendship&#8221; as he started a tour of New Zealand and Australia on Thursday, a rare visit that comes as both hosts grapple with Beijing&#8217;s influence in the Pacific.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Second only to President Xi Jinping in China&#8217;s political hierarchy, Li is the most senior figure to arrive on official business in either nation since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Over six days, Li will set foot in five different cities, meet two prime ministers, hold talks with a string of business leaders, and engage in China&#8217;s trademark &#8220;Panda diplomacy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A noisy crowd greeted Li as his motorcade pulled into the Intercontinental Hotel in the heart of New Zealand&#8217;s capital Wellington.<br \/>\nCheering supporters banged drums and waved banners, while a smaller group of shouting protesters clambered to get a look at his car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Premier Li Qiang touted trade and &#8220;friendship&#8221; as he started a tour of New Zealand and Australia on Thursday, a rare visit that comes as both hosts grapple with Beijing&#8217;s influence in the Pacific. Second only to President Xi Jinping in China&#8217;s political hierarchy, Li is the most senior figure to arrive on official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1746],"class_list":["post-53359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-chinese-premier-li-starts-new-zealand-australia-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}