Cook Islanders Protest Deal With China

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A recent deal between China and the Cook Islands has spurred protests in the Islands over controversial deep-sea mining provisions and what some residents perceive as threats to its close ties to New Zealand.

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00:00Hundreds of people in the Cook Islands have protested a deal between their government

00:04and China. The agreement covers controversial deep-sea mining and other economic partnerships

00:10and also emphasizes diplomatic ties, a point of contention, as protesters accused the Prime

00:16Minister of threatening relations with New Zealand.

00:20And I would say that the actions of our Prime Minister in the last three weeks has been

00:24someone of a person who owns, who thinks he owns our country as his own business. He's

00:29wheeling and dealing and making deals around the world that's affecting us, the people

00:34of the country. We've got no idea.

00:37Opposition parties will hold a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Mark Brown's government

00:42next week.

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