{"id":32451,"date":"2019-02-19T09:54:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32451"},"modified":"2019-02-19T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:54:51","slug":"ex-new-zealand-leader-we-need-to-learn-to-listen-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32451","title":{"rendered":"Ex-New Zealand leader: &#8216;We need to learn to listen to China&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A former New Zealand prime minister has been quoted lavishing praise on China as the country&#8217;s current leader continues to deny reports of a rift between Wellington and Beijing. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a piece published by Chinese state-run <a href=\"http:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2019\/0218\/c90000-9547114.html\" target=\"_blank\">People&#8217;s Daily<\/a> on Monday, Jenny Shipley, a former leader of the conservative National Party and prime minister from 1997 to 1999, commended China&#8217;s &#8220;huge contributions to the world&#8217;s economic growth&#8221; and its &#8220;great efforts&#8221; to promote reform.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;China has actively signed free trade agreements with neighbors and other countries in and out of the region, aiming to find out ways to work together,&#8221; Shipley said in the article, headlined &#8220;We need to learn to listen to China.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A former New Zealand prime minister has been quoted lavishing praise on China as the country&#8217;s current leader continues to deny reports of a rift between Wellington and Beijing. In a piece published by Chinese state-run People&#8217;s Daily on Monday, Jenny Shipley, a former leader of the conservative National Party and prime minister from 1997&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}