The breakdown in relations points to the extremely sharp geopolitical tensions in the Pacific created by the advanced US-led ...

New Zealand’s latest action was an “entirely avoidable consequence of Cook Islands’ strategic flirtations with China,” said Mihai Sora, analyst with the Australia-based thinktank Lowy ...

The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership signed between the Cook Islands and China has 'nothing to do with military or ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in budget funding to the Cook Islands, it said on Thursday, as the relationship between the two constitutionally-linked ...

Aotearoa has an opportunity to "show maturity" as Cook Islands celebrates six decades of self-governance, a Cook Islands political analyst says.

News of the 18.2 million New Zealand dollar ($11 million) funding halt Thursday, which only emerged when a Cook Islands news outlet saw its brief mention in a government budget document, is likely ...

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 ...

News of the 18.2 million New Zealand dollar ($11 million) funding halt Thursday only emerged when a Cook Islands news outlet saw its brief mention in a government budget document.

New Zealand's latest action was an “entirely avoidable consequence of Cook Islands’ strategic flirtations with China,” said Mihai Sora, analyst with the Australia-based thinktank Lowy Institute.