New Zealand’s foreign minister said he had raised concerns over China’s recent live-fire drills in the Tasman Sea during meetings with Chinese leader. Peters is in Beijing for a three-day visit after relations between the two countries became strained over the drills. New Zealand and Australian officials said that China had conducted live-fire exercises in international waters between the two nations, giving little notice and forcing commercial airlines to divert flights. The three Chinese ships were south of Tasmania in Australia’s exclusive economic zone and were now moving west, the New Zealand Defence Force said Wednesday. Do you think that China is trying to protect itself against the western world ?

