New Zealand's Mahuta brings new outlook to foreign affairs

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta speaks during an interview in her office Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, in Wellington, New Zealand. Mahutu is the first Indigenous Maori woman to be appointed foreign minister in New Zealand, and promises to bring a new perspective to the role.

“Look, what I can say is that there were encouraging signs in those speeches,” she said in an interview with the The Associated Press. She said the victory speech by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was “inspirational to many women around the world.”Mahuta, 50, was a surprise pick for the role, despite being a respected performer in Parliament for almost half her life, since she was first elected in 1996 at age 26.

But Mahuta last week took the step of joining Australia, Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. in condemning China for imposing new rules to disqualify legislators in Hong Kong.“Be careful not to get poked in the eye,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in response, referring to the “Five Eyes” military alliance among the five countries.

She said wearing the moko makes her more mindful “in how you want to be as a person, how you treat other people. So that it’s almost like a compass.”

She looks like my Tia, but we are from Argentina. Mad’am Foreign Minister is Maori, and my grandmother is Guaraní. We are connected through shared ancestors, but very long ago. My point is, we are one. Humanity just needs to remember that.

Who is asociated

I love her being appointed! Congrats!

I i move there?

They beat us hands down on so many measures for greatest country in the world for folks to live in. We should look and learn rather than just flap our jaws. Go NZ 🇳🇿

Combative US? Are you STUPID

Maybe put on some makeup and less Cardi B and more Cardi O. Just saying

NanaiaMahuta,in dealing with a bully, one should not kneel down & beg for forgiveness.That will only encourage the bully to be more atrocious Andthat's China,which shows no respect to fairness & mutual respect. Cutting off trade with China would be the respectable thing to do

Maybe they'll be getting caught in the minority trap.

It does look like she has a prison tat tho.

Other than native status, what skillet does she have?

How much did beijing pay you for this tweet?

The U.S. will be back come Jan 20. Patience.

Combative US? What am I missing?

Are there non-indigenous Maori women?

“combative US”?! 😂🤣😂🤣

Hahahahahah China is assertive and the US combative......

Not even hiding the fact you are nothing more than a mouth piece for Chinese propaganda.

Is she gonna eat the competition? The Maori do have a reputation to uphold after all

I hope that is a temporary tattoo.

about time!

Can you be more deferential to Beijing? Please?

Her last name is misspelled in your tweet

Combative US ? Yep media is still full of shot.

She needs to find the right balanced diet!

How much longer before a “assertive China” become a combative China? Hong Kong would probably say, that’s already occurred, along with India. But, I don’t write news stories, so, what do i know?

Looking forward to her leadership.

“Combative US” - yea the New Zealand trade war and all the back and forth attacks have been horrible - this could be the dumbest tweet from the AP ever and that’s saying something

No messing with her for sure. God bless New Zealand.

is she qualified for the job other than the fact she is a brown woman?

just start building a capable navy.

Since American started to wear masks the Covid-19 infection rate has skyrocketed - The inconvenient truth the mainstream media and leftists desperately don’t want you to know.

Are we supposed to pretend that we dont see the tattoo on her chin? Asking for a libtard.

What a handsome woman.

Challenge them with the haka.

AP is a rag

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