New Zealand has accused the Cook Islands government of a lack of transparency over its plans to strike a partnership deal ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The leader of the tiny South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands has flown to China to seal a controversial security deal, in ...

New Zealand's Foreign Minister voiced "significant concern" on Sunday as close Pacific partner the Cook Islands prepared to sign a cooperation deal with China.

The Cook Islands prime minister says he is aware of the strong interest in the outcomes of his visit to China.

though some suspected Beijing’s hand in the decision to leave, a claim China’s Foreign Ministry rejected as “completely groundless.” Pacific security partners Australia, New Zealand and ...