COOK ISLANDS PM MARK BROWN AND CHINA

 Mark Brown, the Current Prime Minister of Cook Islands is pushing for a separate Cook Island's Passport.

Cook Islanders are all New Zealand citizens and use

New Zealand Passports.

The Cook Islands is in free association with New Zealand and also uses the NZ Dollar.

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While some view Mr. Brown's push as helping Cook Islanders....

Others still have Questions.

We are aware that Mr. Brown worked in Beijing as a Diplomat before entering Politics.

We do also know that he has not only worked in telecommunications before and has helped push the Manatua One Polynesia Cable.

We are also aware that money from China and the Asian Development Bank had helped fund;

* Seaports in the Cook Islands.

* Airports in the Cook Islands.

* Telecommunication Developments in the Cook Islands.

ALL WHILE Mr. Brown's Party, the CIP has been in power.

 (The CIP's opponents are also strongly Pro-China but it is the CIP who have helped lead the above upgrades using Chinese Money).

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We are all clear too that having a separate passports MAY have many reasons but often that is so a country can do more business for itself, overseas.

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There are questions for Mr. Brown to answer not just for the nearly 18000 people in the Cook Islands but also the hundreds of thousands of Cook Island people living in New Zealand.

NB;

Indeed there has been some pushback from NZ in terms of Cook Islands having a separate psssport... as it essentially means they would be fully independent.