New Zealand has paused funding to the Cook Islands in an escalation over the Pacific island nation's ties to China.

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

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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 announced on Thursday that it was suspending NZ$18.2 million ($10.97 million) in budget funding to the Cook ...

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in budget funding to the Cook Islands, it said yesterday, as the relationship ...

Cook Islands journalist Rashneel Kumar says the Government was caught off guard - and he explained that it has tried to ease ...

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

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

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