{"id":69400,"date":"2025-02-10T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/10\/new-zealand-raises-concern-as-cook-islands-prepares-to-sign-china-deal"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:22:09","slug":"new-zealand-raises-concern-as-cook-islands-prepares-to-sign-china-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69400","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand raises \u2018concern\u2019 as Cook Islands prepares to sign China deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy PM says New Zealand hasn\u2019t been adequately consulted on an agreement the Cook Islands leader is expected to sign in Beijing this week<\/p>\n<p>A diplomatic row has erupted between two tight-knit Pacific countries, after New Zealand said the Cook Islands failed to properly consult on its plans to deepen ties with China amid growing concerns over Beijing\u2019s push for influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Cook Islands was a dependent New Zealand colony from 1901-1965 but has since operated as a self-governing nation in \u201cfree association\u201d with New Zealand. Its roughly 17,000 citizens hold New Zealand citizenship. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfat.govt.nz\/assets\/Countries-and-Regions\/Pacific\/Cook-Islands\/Cook-Islands-2001-Joint-Centenary-Declaration-signed.pdf\">obligations between the two nations<\/a> to regularly consult on matters of defence and security.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/10\/new-zealand-raises-concern-as-cook-islands-prepares-to-sign-china-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy PM says New Zealand hasn\u2019t been adequately consulted on an agreement the Cook Islands leader is expected to sign in Beijing this weekA diplomatic row has erupted between two tight-knit Pacific countries, after New Zealand said the Cook Islands f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,855,56,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-cook-islands","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69401,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69400\/revisions\/69401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}