Prime Minister Albanese seeks a landmark agreement with Nauru to counter China's influence in the Pacific, following months of secret talks. This comes alongside plans to include a PNG team in the NRL, costing approximately $600 million, to strengthen Australia's geopolitical standing.
The Albanese government hopes to end the year with a major foreign policy victory by signing a landmark pact with Nauru aimed at preventing China from gaining a security foothold in the Pacific.
The dual announcements highlight the importance the government has placed on strengthening ties with the Pacific since the Solomon Islands alarmed policymakers in Canberra in 2022 by striking a wide-ranging security pact with Beijing. Sources familiar with the planned pact with Nauru, who were not authorised to speak publicly, said it would be similar to the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union, which was announced with much fanfare last year.
Adeang alarmed Australian officials in January by suddenly switching Nauru’s diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China in a coup for Beijing.reported in January that Nauru had asked Taiwan for $125 million to “cover a financial shortfall left by the temporary closure” of the immigration detention centre.
China has actively wooed Nauru, and Beijing mouthpiece the Global Times reported in January that there were opportunities for the island under the superpower’s mega-billion-dollar “Belt and Road Initiative”.
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