U.S. President Joe Biden will arrange another summit of Pacific island leaders this year after the disappointment caused by his cancellation of a visit to Papua New Guinea due to the domestic debt ...

T he Bank of China is on the brink of gaining its first full foothold in the Pacific, with an application to set up a branch in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby in the final stages of approval.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said on Thursday his nation's economic growth would make Australia more secure, but that it also could not ignore the opportunities China that offered.

China later fell short in an ambitious attempt to get 10 Pacific island nations, including Papua New Guinea, to sign a sweeping deal covering everything from security to fisheries.

While Australia and China have very different approaches in PNG, both are in working primarily with political elites, while alienating the New Guinean public.

The Albanese government has offered to splash hundreds of millions on PNG’s bid for an NRL team in exchange for assurances the Pacific nation would not sign a security pact with China, according ...

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 ...

E ver since Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, visited Papua New Guinea (PNG) in April, Australia has been trying to fend off a security pact between the two countries.Mr Wang signed trade and ...

Papua New Guinea's government received financial support from China to fund the repair of the Kumul Submarine Cable Network (KSCN). China provided $3.47 million in support, notes W Media, after ...

It would also, of course, signal that Australia, not China, is PNG’s partner of choice. The content of the treaty is yet to be negotiated, but we can expect the military-to-military relationship ...

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, left, meets with Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023.

Papua New Guinea is a near-neighbor of Solomon Islands, where the government shocked the region last year by striking a security pact with China. Article Topic Follows: AP-National Jump to ...