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New Zealand and Cook Islands fall out over China

New Zealand and the Cook Islands fall out over China

China signs an agreement with an island nation. America’s regional partners get spooked. The Cook Islands, a sparsely populated string of 15 islets, is the latest to set off alarm bells. Its prime minister,

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New Zealand voices renewed concern as Cook Islands PM eyes agreement with China

New Zealand expressed renewed concern on Monday about the Cook Islands' prime minister travelling to China this week to sign agreements without properly consulting with Wellington despite the two nations' constitutional ties.

U.S. News & World Report · 18h

China Sees 'In-Depth' Cook Islands Talks, Partnership Deal Expected

China acknowledged a visit by the Cook Islands leader for the first time on Thursday, amid exasperation in New Zealand that it was not consulted about expected agreements involving the South Pacific nation,

The Associated Press on MSN13d

New Zealand grants a mountain personhood, recognizing Taranaki Maunga as sacred to the Indigenous Māori people

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

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Why was New Zealand Mountain granted personhood? Mount Taranaki granted legal rights as a person

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand became a legal person, signaling a significant change in the nation's policy towards indigenous ...

NBC New York13d

A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori

But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak ...

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