The Cook Islands’ pact with China has been furiously denounced by New Zealand as breaching the neo-colonial constitutional ...
"The relationship between China and the Cook Islands does not target any third party," the Chinese Foreign Ministry says, as ...
Perhaps geography is still destiny after all. The closer a Pacific nation sits to American shores, the more Washington seems ...
But the proposed pact has shaken decades-old ties between the Cook Islands and New Zealand, neighbours that are set to mark ...
China says a visit this week by the Cook Islands' prime minister to Beijing was not meant to conspire against anyone in the South Pacific, despite the trip stirring up a diplomatic spat between the ...
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 ...
The leader of the tiny South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands has flown to China to seal a controversial security deal, in ...
China could boost involvement through economic and climate adaptation projects to help Pacific nations meet development needs ...
This week, New Zealand's sometimes outspoken Foreign Minister Winston Peters issued a sharp rebuke to the Cook Islands, a sprawling Pacific archipelago that has been in a state of "free association" ...
Pacific voyaging is being celebrated at the Australian Wooden Boat festival this year, and some traditional experts hope it ...
With British PM Keir Starmer seeking ‘strong protections’ for the US-British base on Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago is ...
Today, the Trump administration will be inheriting an inconsistent, inefficient, and incomplete diplomatic posture in the Pacific Islands region. The Biden administration may have expanded the ...