No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the start of deep-sea mining.
China has confirmed details of its meeting with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown for the first time, saying Beijing ...
China acknowledged a visit by the Cook Islands leader for the first time on Thursday, amid exasperation in New Zealand that ...
The Cook Islands, with one of the largest Exclusive Economic Zones in the world — a whopping 2 million sq km — is considered ...
China stood ready for "in-depth" talks with the Cook Islands, Beijing said on Thursday, a day before a meeting between Premier Li Qiang and visiting Prime Minister Mark Brown. According to the Chinese ...
The Cook Islands is set to strike a comprehensive strategic partnership with China, triggering a hysterical response from New ...
Diplomatic storm clouds are gathering around the Cook Islands, a picturesque tourist destination in the South Pacific known ...
Beijing’s growing influence in the South Pacific has hit the close relationship between Wellington and the Cook Islands ...
The Super Rugby Pacific opener will raise the curtain on a Southern Hemisphere season in which the British and Irish Lions ...
New Zealand has accused the Cook Islands government of a lack of transparency over its plans to strike a partnership deal ...
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 ...