When it comes to worries about Chinese influence in the Pacific, the recent rifts between NZ and two of our neighbours are ...

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

US President Trump's suspension of USAID funding has disrupted global humanitarian and development efforts, opening doors for ...

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

The leader of the Cook Islands is this week making his country's first ever state visit to China in order to sign a deal, ...

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

Perhaps geography is still destiny after all. The closer a Pacific nation sits to American shores, the more Washington seems ...

China insisted on Monday that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not meant to conspire ...

BEIJING (AP) -- China insisted on Monday that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not ...

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

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

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says New Zealand expects transparency and consultation with Cook Islands as it prepares ...