Robert Patman: Cook Islands to sign major deal with China

The Mike Hosking Breakfast - En podcast av Newstalk ZB - Onsdagar

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.  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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