No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...

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

China acknowledged a visit by the Cook Islands leader for the first time on Thursday, amid exasperation in New Zealand that ...

Cook Islands officials yesterday said they had discussed seabed minerals research with China as the small Pacific island ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown will visit China next week, the first visit by a leader of the small South Pacific ...

The Cook Islands causes concern in New Zealand as it moves toward a possible collaboration with China on deep-sea mining.

Analysis: Small island states like the Cooks and Kiribati are not the only Pacific nations extremely exposed to the ...

Cook Islands officials said on Friday they had discussed seabed minerals research with China as the small Pacific island mulls deep-sea mining of its waters. The self-governing co ...

SYDNEY, Feb 14, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Cook Islands officials said Friday they had discussed seabed minerals research with China as the small Pacific island mulls deep-sea mining of its waters.

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

The tiny nation of Cook Islands has delivered a significant blow to Australia’s efforts to counter China’s push into the ...

Climate change is an existential threat for Pacific nations and Australia, according to the authors of Climate politics in ...