A US ally is reconsidering aid to a strategic Pacific nation. Will China move in?
A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...
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A US ally is reconsidering aid to a strategic Pacific nation. Will China move in?
“Kiribati has clearly indicated who its preferred partners are in the region: Fiji, Nauru and then, of course, China,” Powles said. “Both New Zealand, as we’ve just seen, and Australia ...
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Why a China deal has set off a Cook Islands-New Zealand spat
But the proposed pact has shaken decades-old ties between the Cook Islands and New Zealand, neighbours that are set to mark ...
Geopolitical games in the South Pacific
When it comes to worries about Chinese influence in the Pacific, the recent rifts between NZ and two of our neighbours are ...
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Peters would never dare use such a tone talking to bigger nations
Analysis: Small island states like the Cooks and Kiribati are not the only Pacific nations extremely exposed to the ...
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New Zealand’s trouble in paradise
New Zealand is taking too hasty and too abrasive an approach to Pacific islands, putting leadership in the region on edge. We ...
How passports and a deal with China have put New Zealand at odds with its former colony Cook Islands
Wellington is at odds with the Cook Islands over a looming new agreement with China and the former Pacific colony's plan to ...
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Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winer Indira Varma star in a new production of Oedipus at the Old Vic, and ...
New Zealand government alarmed by Cook Islands deal with China
The Cook Islands’ pact with China has been furiously denounced by New Zealand as breaching the neo-colonial constitutional ...