The Cook Islands has signed a “comprehensive strategic partnership” agreement with China without disclosing its contents to New Zealand, raising concerns in Wellington.
Despite a 2001 joint centenary declaration requiring regular consultation on defence and security issues, the Cook Islands asserts it was not obligated to consult New Zealand.
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown described the agreement as part of a broader strategy to strengthen relations with key partners, including New Zealand, while maintaining sovereignty and advancing the nation’s economic and developmental interests.
The deal aims to enhance cooperation in areas such as trade, infrastructure, climate resilience, and maritime development without adding to the Cook Islands’ debt burden.
New Zealand has expressed frustration over the “lack of transparency”, with Foreign Minister Winston Peters stating that multiple requests for details were ignored, undermining meaningful consultation.
China, which has been a development partner to the Cook Islands since 2001, says the agreement targets mutual benefit and should not be influenced by third parties.
Image credit: Christoph Burgdorfer
But there’s another reason why this development should concern every New Zealander – it could signal what’s in store for us if the Coalition fails to defend Parliamentary sovereignty.
The problem is this: if the Coalition refuses to honour its election pledge to amend the Marine and Coast Area Act to deliver what Parliament intended instead of what activist judges have ruled, New Zealand’s coast will end up in the hands of hundreds of tribal groups, who, at the stroke of a pen, could sign lucrative deals with China to exploit the invaluable mineral wealth in our seabed.
https://www.nzcpr.com/parliamentary-sovereignty-hangs-in-the-balance/
The problem is this: the Coalition refuses to honour its election pledge. Otherwise they would honour mandates that the People have clearly taken away from the former lot.
But then again, ALL the parties in parliament were IN on the bioweapon and the criminalization of our protests. They ALL are compromised and therefore corrupted.
Irony!!!
We never got the benefits of our significant oil reserves which are instead exported in their crude form to Australia which refines it. These crude exports are NZ’s 4th biggest export earner – imagine how much we would instead save if we refined it and used it ourselves instead of importing fuel.
Similarly, I’ll bet we won’t ever get the benefits of our own “invaluable mineral wealth in our seabed”
I have yet to hear about the Marsden Point Refinery being modernised and re-opened in order to produce petroleum products ‘For NZ Use Only’… as a priority, and only then when those NZ needs are met should the surplus go to Oz.
Same thing should go for our food, dairy and mineral commodities that seem to disappear overseas before Kiwis get a chance to obtain any of those items.
IF the NZ Loyal Party had won the last (s)election, the Treaty of Waitangi would be a legal instrument relegated to history, as the new ratified Constitution would cover ALL NEW ZEALANDERS irrespective of race, creed, religion, (minus the group responsible for the world’s genocides in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank w. 60K dead, Russia before Putin with 66 million dead under the J3wi$h Zio-Bolsheviks ) and political belief, and the usury enslavement of the West via the Zionist run Talmudic ‘Central and ‘Reserve’ Banks’ due to Israel compromising the (s)elected ‘Officials and Representatives’ sitting in governments pretty much everywhere would have been STOPPED!
The ‘Reserve Bank of New Zealand’ would have been shut-down, and the nation’s currency returned to the NZ Treasury (similar to what’s coming in the U.S. w/ Trump, the same policy that got JFK killed in part…) . Any debt that we have to the ‘Central (Talmudic) Bank’ would then be paid in full with a lump-sum payment to the same using only crypto-currency.
Bitcoin would then be produced to fund NZ Government-run programs which is then converted to cash currency for dispersal to the public as related to Sickness Benefits, Job Seeker Benefits, ACC, along with the on-going infrastructure projects of modernisation.
Local Banks would then deal in cash, gold, silver, platinum and precious stones (ie Opals, Diamonds, Rubies,…those stones which have intrinsic industrial values for backing the nation’s currency…) with full Bitcoin Protection of NZ$100K for every individual account that is active.
CBDC’s via Bitcoin should and will only be used for Government Inter Agency transactions, and not allowed into the public / private Banking realm due to privacy reason, and the possibility of being cut-off from cash funds due to ‘Social Credit’ ratings.
Also, if any Bank ever de-Banks a person or business, those Banks that engage in that practice should be fined no less than NZ$500K for each instance of de-Banking a business, entity or an individual.
A flat tax rate as per outlined by the NZ Loyal Party would see the end of the IRD, similar to what is possibly going to happen with the illegal, criminal and tyrannical IRS in the U.S. in due course under Trump via Musk and DOGE.
One must not expect too much from these two men- both are J3wi$h Zionists, and may be covertly prepping the Yanks for digital enslavement.
We shall se…
Great comment, thank you.
You should send a whole article to the editor.
Assume the Cook Islands think it’s truly kind of China to build a much larger deepwater port for free.
Maybe the Cook Islands see NZ as a colonial dictator
So that’s Kiribati, Bougainville (PNG), Solomon’s, Vanuatu, Cook Islands. There is already Chinese development in Fiji. The noose is slowly but surely tightening. The various Iwi’s who will soon be inheriting all of New Zealand won’t know what to do with all the digital currency coming their way from the CCP.
Time for us too not travel to suck countries
We are forced to know more and more about less and less until we know absolutely everything about nothing
Well done! The Cook is govt is looking after their interests and the interests of their people. No NZ govt has done this for many years.
You gotta be kidding!
As if any govt would look after its people.
The elites look after their corrupt interests first.