The ships are to stay in Port Moresby for two days before joining naval exercises in Australia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SYDNEY - Two Indian navy ships docked in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, underscoring the strategic importance of the country to global superpowers the United States and China and their allies.
Pacific island leaders, whose territories span 40 million sq km of ocean, have said rising sea levels caused by climate change are their most pressing security priority. Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, who was feted on a July visit to Beijing, on Wednesday broke ground on a China-financed project to build 161 Huawei telecommunications towers across an archipelago with a population of 700,000.
At the end of World War I, the islands “consumed attention” at the 1921-22 Washington Naval Treaties amid concern over Japan’s access to an undersea cable, said Mr Green, a former senior US national security adviser.
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