Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal announced Thursday linked to ...

A team from the Pacific nation will join Australia’s National Rugby League in a $400 million deal that deepens ties while ...

This political and sporting saga weaves together the most unlikely of players, from the Communist Party of China, to the massive island of Papua New Guinea, the administration of US President Joe ...

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 ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — 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 Pacific.

Australia and its partners, chiefly the US, worry that such deals could potentially give China greater influence in a strategically significant region. Australia is Papua New Guinea’s largest ...

in the latest move by the US ally to attempt to contain China’s growing strategic presence in the region. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stood alongside Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James ...

Australia deploys rugby diplomacy to tempt neighbour away from China - Australian government will invest £300m in a new rugby ...

Australia will spend US$385 million to establish a team from Papua New Guinea in its rugby league competition, Prime Minister ...

a move designed to help ward off China. Papua New Guinea has long lobbied for a side in Australia's National Rugby League but safety fears and a lack of funding in the Pacific nation had thwarted ...

to establish a team from Papua New Guinea in its rugby league competition, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Dec 12, a move designed to help ward off China. Papua New Guinea has long lobbied ...