China tells New Zealand that Chinese tourists are canceling visits to New Zealand, presenting this as their spontaneous decision.

I don't know whether there is really a decrease in Chinese visits to New Zealand, but China could easily cause that to happen by deducting "social credit" from anyone who goes there.

The totalitarian system of "social credit" is meant to convert everyone in China into a part of a social organism resembling an ant colony. It hasn't entirely reached that point, as of yet, but no aspect of Chinese people's behavior can be presumed to be decided by the people themselves.

I wonder how many points of "social credit" you lose in China currently if you go to New Zealand.