The prime minister of New Zealand stressed the importance of his country's trade ties with China in a meeting with Chinese ...

The prime minister of New Zealand has stressed the importance of his country’s trade ties with China in a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping ...

Pausing nearly $20 million in development assistance is “patronising” and “inconsistent with modern partnership”, Prime ...

New Zealand has paused funding to the Cook Islands in an escalation over the Pacific island nation's ties to China.

China has been wooing Pacific Island countries with strategic partnership agreements. New Zealand has said it will pause ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who is on his first official visit to China, said the Cook Islands had not been transparent ...

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in budget funding to the Cook Islands, it said on Thursday, as the relationship ...

New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the ...

Increasing economic ties between the Cook Islands and China represent a pivotal shift in regional geopolitics with implications for Australia and New Zealand’s influence in the South Pacific — a ...

Cook Islands Premier Mark Brown said Thursday that he is open to reworking ties with New Zealand if a new pact makes the islands "more independent," according to the Australian Broadcasting ...

Cook Island's Prime Minister Mark Brown says any new agreement with NZ can't "wind back the clock" to the colonial era. NZ and Cook Islands remain at loggerheads over contentious China deal.