NZ kind of toady's up to China, always concerned about offending.
Exports are crucial to NZ's survival, their population and internal market too small.
Unfortunately when UK many years ago joined EU, their export of lamb and dairy dried up as UK was their major market, the swing of the pendulum may have just swing back though, little too early to tell now since Brexit.
Yeah when you have an open but small economy, you are ripe for picking by countries that are large and rich, unfortunately cuz you don't have much leverage but I still felt the NZ dairy industry should've banded together to have a stronger bargaining position at least.