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

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

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

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

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

Ruth Cross Kwansing, a New Zealand-born Kiribati MP, has come to her president's defence in the diplomatic row between ...

The New Zealand government was threatening "to punish" Cook Islanders if the plan went ahead, its prime minister, Mark Brown, ...

The Cook Islands Prime Minister's visit to Beijing aims to explore renewable energy and agriculture cooperation, amidst growing China-Pacific relations. New Zealand, a longtime Cook Islands partner, ...

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

Mark Brown, Cook Islands’ prime minister, has flown with a delegation to Beijing Credit: REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay On Friday, Winston Peters, New Zealand’s foreign minister, called the Cook ...