China tells New Zealand to stop 'creating trouble' after Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters backed Taiwan rejoining the World Health Organization
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters delivers a speech on New Zealand's foreign policy response to COVID-19 on April 29, 2020.China and New Zealand have been clashing over a call to let Taiwan rejoin the World Health Organization as an observer state.
New Zealand's Chinese Embassy criticized Peters and reinforced the "One-China" policy, which asserts Taiwan is not a separate country.On Monday, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lihan, warned New Zealand risked damaging the two nations' relationship if "certain people" didn't stop "spreading rumors and creating trouble.
According to official Chinese policy, Taiwan is not a separate country but rather a breakaway province and part of "one China." Until 2016, Taiwan was an observer at WHO,But China objected after the election of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and the country was again excluded.
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