China and the Cook Islands on Friday signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement, but the lack of transparency around the details has alarmed New Zealand, the South Pacific state’s ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the Cook Islands signed an action plan last week for a comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Concerns are mounting in New Zealand as the Cook Islands’ prime minister travels to China this week to sign agreements without properly consulting with New ...

We therefore view the Cook Islands as having failed to properly consult New Zealand with respect to any agreements it plans to sign this coming week in China. This lack of consultation is a matter of ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is visiting Beijing this week to sign a strategic partnership agreement with the world’s second-largest economy in the latest sign of China’s expanding ...

New Zealand has accused the Cook Islands government of a lack of transparency ... country's first ever state visit to Beijing ...

[AP Photo/Sergei Grits] Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is visiting China from February 10-14, where he will sign the agreement. Brown declared: “We must look at other ways to ensure that ...