Robert Patman: Cook Islands to sign major deal with China
The Mike Hosking Breakfast · Newstalk ZB
February 5, 20256m 2s
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Show Notes
1News reports Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is travelling to Beijing on Friday to sign a deal.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters seems to have been caught off guard - given New Zealand's long-standing free association agreement.
Otago University international relations professor Robert Patman says the partnership has potential security and foreign policy implications, so New Zealand should have been consulted.
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foreign policycook islandschinanational security