Tag: China in Pacific

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist, in Avarua, Rarotonga More than 400 people have taken to the streets to protest against Cook Islands Prime Minister...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Avarua, Rarotonga Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown hopes to have "an opportunity to talk" with the New...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark maintains that Cook Islands, a realm of New Zealand, should have...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says the deal with China "complements, not replaces" the relationship with New Zealand...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Avarua, Rarotonga China has confirmed details of its meeting with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown for the...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The country’s leading daily newspaper, The New Zealand Herald, screamed out this online headline by a columnist on February 10: “Should...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist China and the Cook Islands' relationship "should not be disrupted or restrained by any third party", says Chinese Foreign...

The Cook Islands finds itself in a precarious dance -- one between the promises of foreign investments and the integrity of our own sovereignty....

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says New Zealand is asking for too much oversight over its deal with...

By Charlene Lanyon in Suva A high-level, seven-member delegation from People’s Daily, China's most influential newspaper, has been hosted by the University of the South...

By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Marshall Islands officials quickly moved this week to reaffirm this nation's ties...

Pacific Media Watch Barely a day passes without a story in the British or Australian media that ramps up fear about the rulers in Beijing,...

By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva While Japan’s discharge of nuclear waste waters into the Pacific from its Fukushima nuclear plant has been drawing flak across...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama says Bougainville’s future as an independent sovereign nation is inevitable and nothing can change the...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The last 10 days has seen the entire media focus (aside from the ubiquitous concern for the All Black prospects in...

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan in Tumon, Guam Guam Governor Lou Leon Guerrero has expressed support for the Federated States of Micronesia’s move to oppose China’s proposed...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific at the Pacific Islands Forum in Suva Former Kiribati President Anote Tong suspects a major agreement is "cooking" between Beijing...

By Wanshika Kumar in Suva Pacific leaders really need to look seriously at the concerns raised by the President Taneti Maamau of Kiribati, resulting in...

ANALYSIS: The restrictions on Pacific news media during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent Pacific trip are only the most recent example of a...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Fiji police have evicted two Chinese defence attaches from a Pacific Islands Forum summit in Suva while US Vice-President Kamala Harris...

RNZ Pacific United States Vice-President Kamala Harris has assured Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting in the Fiji capital Suva that Washington will "significantly deepen" its...

By Wata Shaw in Suva Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama opened the 51st Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting yesterday by saying it was setting the...