Foreign Minister Winston Peters has called for a “reset” of New Zealand’s relationship with the Cook Islands. In a speech to ...

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has used a policy address to remind the Cook Islands of their responsibilities under a ...

The public quarrel between New Zealand and the Cook Islands — which share a passport, a military and constitutional ties — is ...

As Pacific nations move closer to NZ’s chief strategic adversary in the region, the Government looks at how it can more ...

China and the Cook Islands on Friday signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement, but the lack of transparency ...

Cook Islands tension with New Zealand. Speech by exiled Bangladeshi leader sparks violence. Albanese and Trump talk tariffs.

The Cook Islands needs trade and investment. Its economy depends on tourism, and, having graduated to “high-income” status in ...

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

New Zealand is taking too hasty and too abrasive an approach to Pacific islands, putting leadership in the region on edge. We ...

But the proposed pact has shaken decades-old ties between the Cook Islands and New Zealand, neighbours that are set to mark ...

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

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