China's ambassador weighs in as Winston Peters tells Green MP to 'go back to your own country'
5 sources·Updated July 30, 2026
Winston Peters controversy
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- Dawn World PK·4h agoNew Zealand FM in row with Beijing's envoy after telling Chinese-born lawmaker to 'go back to your own country'
New Zealand’s top diplomat Winston Peters drew the ire of Beijing’s ambassador in Wellington on Thursday after telling a lawmaker of Chinese descent to “go back to your own country”. During a debate about New Zealand’s response to the Covid pandemic on Wednesday, populist NZ…
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'Go back to your own country. That's where they lie like a flatfish, but they don't lie like that here,' Peters says
Read at Express Tribune World → - NZ Herald·12h agoChina’s ambassador weighs in as Winston Peters tells Green MP to ‘go back to your own country’
Ambassador Wang Xiaolong said Peters’ words revealed more about him than anyone else.
Read at NZ Herald → - RNZ Politics NZ·13h agoChina's ambassador weighs in as Winston Peters tells Green MP to 'go back to your own country'
"Sometimes a statement says more about the person that makes it than anything or anybody else".
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