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

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is willing to deepen mutual political trust with the Cook Islands, China's Premier Li Qiang said ...

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

New Zealand expressed renewed concern on Monday about the Cook Islands' prime minister travelling to China this week to sign ...

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

For decades, Norfolk Island was regarded as a place suitable only for the “newly wed or the nearly dead”. Meanwhile, its ...

When it comes to worries about Chinese influence in the Pacific, the recent rifts between NZ and two of our neighbours are ...

Cook Islands’ expected partnership deal with China has triggered tensions between the South Pacific nation and New Zealand.

BEIJING (AP) -- China insisted on Monday that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not ...

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

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