China lodges complaint after New Zealand foreign minister tells MP to ‘go back to your own country’

China's ambassador has lodged a rare formal complaint after New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters made remarks to Chinese-born MP Lawrence Xu-Nan in parliament, Euronews reports. Peters refused to back down, despite the diplomatic intervention—the comments included telling Xu-Nan to 'go back to your own country.'

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