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

In separate agreements with Nauru, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, Australia is attempting to edge out China’s ...

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

The Australian government has signed a confidential agreement with Papua New Guinea, its second security pact in the Pacific ...

A historic $600m deal to give Papua New Guinea an NRL team has dashed China’s hopes for a security pact with Australia’s ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.