Neither Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern nor National's Christopher Luxon have any intentions to visit Taiwan, but ACT leader David Seymour would if he was invited.
It comes as the Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand warns Beijing will "take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard" Taiwan and calls for Kiwis to be alert.
US Speaker Nancy Pelosi is currently in Taiwan, sparking a bitter reaction from Beijing which says she's violating US policy that Taiwan is part of China. The Chinese military is conducting military operations offshore to express its disapproval of the trip, which isn't officially sanctioned by the White House.
New Zealand also doesn't have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, but does interact with it through the likes of APEC and trade and tourism.
Ardern on Wednesday wouldn't "cast judgement" on the decision for Pelosi to visit, calling for parties to practice dialogue and diplomacy. She said it was positive that the leaders of China and the US had recently spoken.
"Our position on the tensions that we have observed around the Taiwan Strait doesn't change and that is that the most important thing we need between all parties right now is dialogue and diplomacy," she told reporters.
"New Zealand will continue to call for there to be engagement and communication between both nations and those where we have seen that contested environment."
Ardern said she has no plans to visit Taiwan. She last visited Beijing in 2019 and on Monday expressed a desire to head there again when COVID-19 conditions allow.
"There have been visits by MPs [to Taiwan] over the years. But the last visit at a ministerial level, I believe, was in about 1998. New Zealand does engage with Chinese Taipei economically through APEC, and that's long been our tradition."
The National Party leader agreed what US officials did was up to them.
"From our perspective, we will be watching that closely. We really want the US and China to resolve its own tensions and we want to be able to work with both countries," Luxon said.
Asked if he would visit Taiwan if he becomes Prime Minister, Luxon answered simply: "No".
One party leader who would open to it, however, is Seymour. He would go if invited, but also didn't want to wade into the geopolitics between the US and China.
"Personally, I wouldn't comment about an American domestic decision, but I would say that any person has the right to go to Taipei if the people of Taipei want them there. It's not up to the CCP to decide who can go to Taipei. The fact that they even think that's an acceptable position shows we've got problems."
The Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Wang Xiaolong on Wednesday afternoon provided a statement to Newshub reiterating that Pelosi's visit "constitutes a major political provocation".
He went onto say Taiwan is part of China's territory and that the US appeared to be "backtracking" from its One China principle.
"Some US politicians are flagrantly playing with fire on the Taiwan question for selfish gains. The US side has shown the world what a bully it is. This will only make people of all countries see more clearly that the United States is the biggest destroyer of peace today."
Wang said China would "take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard our soverity and territorial integrity". Beijing has never ruled out invading Taiwan.
The Ambassador said China wants to work with New Zealand and others in the region "to safeguard peace and stability".
By sharing with you the statement herewith, I mean to invite you to stay alerted and firmly opposed to any unwarranted attempt to pull the region, and indeed the world, further down the wrong and dangerous path."
Wang also provided a statement from the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry which repeated that Pelosi's visit would have "a severe impact on the political foundation of China-US relations".
Pelosi is the most senior US politician to visit Taiwan in more than two decades and met with its President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday. She said her visit would make it "unequivocally clear" the US would not abandon Taiwan.
