Foreign Minister Winston Peters says the deal between the Cook Islands and China came out of left field for not only New ...

China says a visit this week by the Cook Islands' prime minister to Beijing was not meant to conspire against anyone in the ...

The Cook Islands’ pact with China has been furiously denounced by New Zealand as breaching the neo-colonial constitutional ...

But the proposed pact has shaken decades-old ties between the Cook Islands and New Zealand, neighbours that are set to mark ...

Beijing’s growing influence in the South Pacific has hit the close relationship between Wellington and the Cook Islands ...

Foreign Minister Winston Peters said he had not been consulted ... and seal a Joint Action Plan for Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with Beijing.

A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...

The leader of the tiny South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands has flown to China to seal a controversial security deal, in ...

Could New Zealand’s relationships with its Pacific neighbours be in jeopardy – and is China ready to take full advantage? Tensions have emerged in recent weeks between New Zealand and several Pacific ...

Mediawatch - By the time Trump announced tariffs on China and Canada last Monday which could kickstart a trade war, our ...

"The relationship between China and the Cook Islands does not target any third party," the Chinese Foreign Ministry says, as ...