In return, Papua New Guinea signed a confidential security pact with Australia that is meant to stop China from gaining a security foothold in the Pacific nation, according to a report by ...

China has pursued its own bilateral security pact on policing with Papua New Guinea and with other South Pacific island nations which U.S. allies including Australia fear could undermine regional ...

With the latest MoU, Papua New Guinea continues to be at the center of a tug-of-war between China and Australia.

Papua New Guinea is a near-neighbor of the Solomon Islands where the government sent shock waves through the Pacific last year by striking a security pact with China. The pact raised fears of a ...

and dragging Port Moresby into Washington’s geopolitical games against Russia and China," she noted. According to Zakharova, despite promises not to use the territory of Papua New Guinea as a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal announced Thursday linked to limiting Chinese influence in the South ...