Photo / Alex BurtonForeign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta has issued a mild rebuke to China for warning the Five Eyes intelligence alliance of "their eyes being poked and blinded". She said New Zealand signed the Five Eyes statement - which New Zealand has previously refrained from doing - because "enough countries were expressing concern". "We are deeply concerned by recent developments there, including China's passing of national security legislation for Hong Kong and recent arrests of, and disqualification of, elected Legislative Council lawmakers," Mahuta said. One side's going to want us to be quiet, and the other side's going to want to make sure we don't fall out of the pack." Zhao said Hong Kong was an inalienable part of China and that public officials must "be loyal to the motherland.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 20, 2020 03:22 UTC