Why a deal with China has strained New Zealand’s ties with the Cook Islands - Beijing’s growing influence in the South ...

New Zealand expressed renewed concern on Monday about the Cook Islands' prime minister travelling to China this week to sign ...

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

By signing a deal with Beijing, the Cook Islands is asserting its independence – in a stark challenge to New Zealand’s ...

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

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

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

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown will visit China next week, the first visit by a leader of the small South Pacific ...

Australia, New Zealand and the US have been moving to counter China’s growing strategic and diplomatic influence in the past three years by striking agreements with nations including Tuvalu, Nauru and ...

Concerns are mounting in New Zealand as the Cook Islands’ Prime Minister travels to China this week to sign agreements without properly consulting with New Zealand, despite the two nations' ...

Diplomatic tension between the Cook Islands and New Zealand is growing. Here's what it's about, what China has to do with it, ...

New Zealand has repeatedly asked the Cook Islands to consult on the contents of agreements that Brown plans to sign with ...