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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 0930 GMT, Sept. 12

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Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra sees China as a "strategic partner" with a "long-term vision."

She made the remark in an interview published Sunday with Argentina's prestigious daily Clarin. (Argentina-China-Ties)

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WELLINGTON -- A record number of overseas visitors, driven by a surge in Chinese tourists, drove a record for New Zealand's accommodation sector in July, the government statistics agency said Monday.

National guest nights in commercial accommodation for July were up 6.9 percent year on year, with international guest nights up 15.8 percent and domestic guest nights up 2 percent, according to Statistics New Zealand. (China-Visitors)

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BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Estonian counterpart, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, exchanged congratulatory message on Sunday to mark the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between their two countries.

Xi said that China-Estonia relations have shown a good momentum for development, and that mutual political trust between the two sides has kept deepening, with fruitful results achieved in practical cooperation, with people-to-people and cultural exchange turning increasingly active, and with close cooperation maintained in international and regional affairs.

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WELLINGTON -- New Zealanders were urged to learn Mandarin or Cantonese on the opening of Chinese Language Week on Monday.

"China is one of New Zealand's largest trading partners. Our trade relationship with China has nearly tripled over the past decade to 23 billion NZ dollars (16.87 billion U.S. dollars) in June 2016," Ethnic Communities Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga said in a statement. (New Zealand-Chinese Language) Endi