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New Zealand’s announced review of its development aid to Kiribati after a diplomatic rift between the two countries should ...

The Cook Islands is set to strike a comprehensive strategic partnership with China, triggering a hysterical response from New ...

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

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 ...

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

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

On Facebook — at some length — New Zealand-born Kiribati MP Ruth Cross Kwansing blamed “media manufactured drama”. “The New Zealand media seized the opportunity to patronise Kiribati, and the familiar ...

Wellington is at odds with the Cook Islands over a looming new agreement with China and the former Pacific colony's plan to ...