Prime Minister Christopher Luxon addressed tensions with Deputy PM Winston Peters regarding the Government’s trade messaging during an interview with Newstalk ZB. The coalition leaders have disagreed over New Zealand’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with Peters criticizing the use of “military language” in trade discussions. In a speech at the East-West Centre in Hawaii, Peters denounced such rhetoric, describing the framing of international trade as a “trade war” as potentially “hysterical and short-sighted.”
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