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

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

STORY: New Zealand has suspended millions in budget funding to the Cook Islands over that nation's growing ties with ...

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands, the government said Thursday, as relations ...

New Zealand on Thursday said it had paused a planned US$11 million development assistance payment for the next financial year ...

This comes amid the Cook Islands' deepening ties with China. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said today that Beijing had “no fundamental conflicts of interest” with New Zealand, as he ...

New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China, officials in Wellington said Thursday ...

China has been wooing Pacific Island countries with strategic partnership agreements. New Zealand has said it will pause funding to the Cook Islands until it can take a closer look at these deals.

New Zealand has halted more than $18 million in development assistance to its realm country. But the island's prime minister ...

Tensions rise as New Zealand freezes millions of dollars in aid to Cook Islands over China deals - New Zealand says funding ...