Sept 1 — At a routine Foreign Ministry briefing, spokesman Guo Jiakun was asked by a Reuters reporter about US and New Zealand plans to jointly build a deep-water port on the site of a former military base in the Cook Islands. Guo said "China has consistently held that cooperation between countries should be conducive to maintaining regional peace and stability."

2026-09-01

Sept 1 — At a routine Foreign Ministry briefing, spokesman Guo Jiakun was asked by a Reuters reporter about US and New Zealand plans to jointly build a deep-water port on the site of a former military base in the Cook Islands. Guo said "China has consistently held that cooperation between countries should be conducive to maintaining regional peace and stability."