First published JUL 13, 2023 Updated 1 hour ago Foreign Affairs China's man in Wellington makes it clear Beijing doesn't want New Zealand partnering Nato in any push to contain China in the Indo-Pacific Prime Minister Chris Hipkins returns to New Zealand on Friday from the high-powered Nato summit to a ringing warning from China over this country engaging further with Nato in developing a security bloc in this part of the world. The Chinese Ambassador to Wellington, Wang Xiaolong, issued a statement even before Hipkins had boarded his return flights from the summit venue, Vilnius in Lithuania, in which he warned New Zealand not to "open the door to the devil" by cosying up to any Nato bloc in the Asia-Pacific region.

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