Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown will be signing agreements in China this week, with New Zealand and much of the Cook Islands left out of the loop. 

Member of the Cook Islands Parliament Tina Browne said the island nation is not in favour of the Prime Minister's plans. 

"The country is reacting in a way that I've never seen before ... we thought that things were calming down, but actually they're not, they're escalating," she said. 

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