New Zealand Prime Minister Luxon intends visit to China

19/3/2024 7:26

        New Zealand's prime minister Christopher Luxon intends to travel to China in the coming months following meetings with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in New Zealand this week.
        
        Luxon on Monday, along with Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Trade Minister Todd McClay met with Wang, who was the first high ranking Chinese official to visit New Zealand since 2017.
        
        Peters said in a briefing to media on Tuesday that meetings with Wang had been "very convivial, very friendly" and that McClay would visit China next month and Luxon is "going not long after that.
        
        A spokesperson for the Prime Minster said Luxon had been invited to visit China, and the Chinese leadership invited to New Zealand but “nothing had been confirmed yet."
        
        If confirmed, this would be Luxon's first visit since he was elected as Prime Minister last October, however Chris Hipkins travelled to China as Prime Minister in mid-2023.