China's embassy in New Zealand on Thursday accused Wellington's top spy of lying after the intelligence chief warned of security risks posed by Beijing's growing influence in the Pacific.

But its proximity to Hawaii and its huge ocean expanse have bolstered its strategic importance and provoked an influence skirmish between Western powers and Beijing. The Kiribati government ...

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Peters told reporters after the meeting that he raised Wellington's concerns directly with Wang about the short notice and expected that these would be considered. He said that Beijing did not ...

The map below shows the location of Wellington and Beijing. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance ...