Former PM Peter O’Neill criticises timing of foreign minister’s visit, saying no agreements should be signed with Beijing before poll
Wang is on a tour of eight Pacific island nations where he has signed a series of bilateral agreements on trade, fisheries, infrastructure and the supply of police equipment.deferred consideration of a sweeping regional agreementThe United States and its allies have expressed concern about Beijing’s ambitions for security ties with Pacific island nations which control vast areas of resource-rich oceans and access to a region with strategic military significance.
“There has been resentment over Pacific agreement on security matters,” Papua New Guinea’s foreign affairs secretary, Elias Wohengu, was quoted as saying by the Post Courier newspaper.
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