Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Beijing: China has agreed to consider concerns that its military did not give enough notice before staging live-fire exercises in the waters between New Zealand and Australia last week, the foreign minister of New Zealand has said.The drills prompted passenger flights between the two countries to divert mid-flight after Chinese naval vessels warned pilots they were flying above a live-fire exercise.People’s Liberation Army-Navy Renhai-class cruiser Zunyi, and Fuchi-class replenishment vessel Weishanhu in the Tasman Sea.Credit: Australian Defence Force“I think it would be true to say that he took our concerns on board,” Foreign Minister Winston Peters said after meeting his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing.The head of the Australian Defence Force, Admiral David Johnston, has said the military only learnt about the drills 40 minutes after they began after Airservices Australia alerted them and that it took another 50 minutes for the New Zealand Navy, which was monitoring the three Chinese ships in the Tasman Sea, to inform the ADF.Airservices Australia officials said they found out about the live-firing exercise after a midair alert by a Virgin Australia pilot flying through the area, who heard a broadcast from the Chinese ships.The New Zealand delay in informing Australia has prompted sharp questions in Canberra about the trans-Tasman allies’ surveillance capabilities.In Beijing, New Zealand minister Peters said that when meeting Wang, he had put the issue in the context of the close ties that the two countries have developed since 2008. China is the biggest export destination for New Zealand and Australia.“We’re in the second decade of this arrangement, and this is a failure in it at this time, and we’d like to have it corrected in the future,” he said. He added, “That is something which we believe is under consideration.”
