China made a rare diplomatic protest to New Zealand on Thursday after NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ jibe at a Chinese-born lawmaker he called a “loudmouth” who he urged to “go back to your own country.”
The populist leader of the New Zealand First party spoke during a Parliamentary debate on the government’s response to the Chinese coronavirus epidemic, Reuters reports.
Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan – a lawmaker from the left-wing Green Party born in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin but who grew up in East Auckland, RNZ notes, – heckled Peters in the exchange who then made his retort.
Peters was asked by Xu-Nan: “Are you vaccinated?” during...
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