(19 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beijing – 19 June 2025
1. Wide of news conference
2. Wide of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Jiakun, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
"China and the Cook Islands are comprehensive strategic partners based on mutual respect and common development. China has always upheld the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind and conducts friendly cooperation with the Cook Islands in various fields on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, supporting the Cook Islands in developing its economy and improving people’s livelihoods."
4. Reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Jiakun, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
"Both New Zealand and the Cook Islands are important partners of China. China-Cook Islands cooperation targets no third party, nor should it be interfered with or constrained by any third party."
6. Various of news conference
STORYLINE:
China on Thursday stressed its cooperation with the Cook Islands “targets no third party” and should not be “interfered with or constrained by any third party.”
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun in Beijing made the remarks at a daily news briefing when asked about New Zealand’s decision to halt millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China.
A spokesperson for New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters told The Associated Press that New Zealand is the smaller Pacific nation’s biggest funder, and won’t consider any new money for the Cook Islands until the relationship improves.
Relations between other Pacific islands and their larger regional backers, Australia and New Zealand, have stumbled over ties with China in recent years as Beijing has vied to increase its Pacific sway.
But the latest move by New Zealand’s government was striking because it reflected growing friction between two countries with strong constitutional ties — Cook Islands is self-governing but shares a military and passports with New Zealand — over their diverging approaches to managing relations with Beijing.
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