The prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand have presented a united front on the issue of China and warned against actors seeking to divide the trans-Tasman allies by creating “points of difference” between them. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison joined NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for the Annual Leaders’ Summit in Queenstown to discuss a range of issues, including COVID-19, increased engagement in the Pacific, trade, and peace in the Indo-Pacific. The leaders sought to assuage concerns of a division between the nations and how they were handling the China relationship. “At no point in our discussions today did I detect any difference in our relative positions on the importance of maintaining a very strong and principled perspective on issues around trade, on issues around human rights,” Ardern told reporters in a joint press conference with Morrison in Queenstown. “We have been broadly positioned on exactly the same place …