A revenge to New Zealand in response to the banned Huawei 5G rollout?

Reported by Global Times, a tabloid arm of the Communist party’s official newspaper group, that the escalating tension between China and New Zealand resulting from the ban of Huawei’s equipment in its 5G rollout is leading tourists who had planned to visit New Zealand to cancel their trips. The news release was strongly suggested as being targeted at New Zealand’s audience only since no equivalent is available in China. New Zealand had close to half a million Chinese tourists in 2018, make it the second-largest source of visitors after Australia.