The Cook Islands government says it is working to stabilise its strained relationship with New Zealand, but not at the cost of its independence. It comes after Aotearoa extended ...
STORY: New Zealand has suspended millions in budget funding to the Cook Islands over that nation's growing ties with China. Tensions between the two escalated in February after Cook Islands Prime ...
Wellington’s diplomatic bullying of the Cook Islands is part of the sharpening geopolitical tensions in the Pacific region ...
China seeks to increase "political trust" and belt and road cooperation with the Cook Islands, Premier Li Qiang told his visiting counterpart Mark Brown as they met on Friday. Multiple cooperation ...
Feb 26 (Reuters) - Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown survived on Wednesday a vote of no confidence in parliament brought by the opposition over deals he struck with China that strained relations ...
China says a visit by Cook Islands’ prime minister isn’t meant to antagonize others in South Pacific
BEIJING — China insisted on Monday that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not meant to conspire against anyone in the South Pacific, despite the trip stirring ...
The New Zealand political and media establishment continued to ratchet up tensions with the Cook Islands over the past week, as more details were released about the small Pacific country’s recent ...
(Reuters) - New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Wednesday his country must “reset” its relationship with the Cook Islands government after its Pacific neighbour signed agreements with ...
The analysis shows that, once costs, market factors, and technological challenges are accounted for, deep sea mining for Cook Islands nodules is more likely to have a negative economic return.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A strategic partnership deal between China and the Cook Islands spans areas from deep-sea mining to education scholarships but excludes security ties, a document released by ...
The economic potential of seabed polymetallic nodules in the South Pacific's Cook Islands has been overstated, according to a new independent study ...
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