China Pacific Visit

H.E Wang Yi arrived last Thursday to hold bilateral talks with PNG counterpart-Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Soroi Eoe. 
He also witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to promote investment cooperation in Green Development between PNG and the People’s Republic of China.
 
Last Friday, the close dialogue with Minister Eoe resulted in a fruitful result for the Ihu economic project, where China committed to fund the Ihu SEZ infrastructural development and bring in early investment.

He was met by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Elias Wohengu, Chief of Protocol, James Noglai and Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to PNG, Zeng Fanhua at the APEC terminal.

Mr Yi will have a bilateral meeting with his PNG counterpart, Soroi Eoe tomorrow.

After the meeting, the Minister will witness the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to promote investment cooperation in Green Development between PNG and the People’s Republic of China.

He will be met by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Elias Wohengu, Chief of Protocol, James Noglai and Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to PNG Zeng Fanhua upon arrival at the APEC terminal.

From there Mr Yi will proceed straight to the China Harbor Apartments.

Mr Yi will have a bilateral meeting with his counterpart Soroi Eoe on Friday June 3, 2022.

After the meeting, the minister will witness the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to promote investment cooperation in Green Development between PNG and the People’s Republic of China.

The allegations raise serious press freedom concerns and alarm about the ability of Pacific journalists to do their jobs, particularly as the relationship between the region and China becomes closer.

Wang is midway through a marathon trip visiting eight countries in 10 days. He has held bilateral meetings in Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Samoa and Fiji to date, with trips to Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste to come.

China’s foreign minister Wang Yi is in the middle of a marathon tour of the region, visiting eight countries in 10 days, a trip that security experts have said represents a dramatic “uptick in tempo” of China’s push for influence in the region.

Officials representing Beijing have been working slowly and, for the most part, quietly in the small island nations that dot the vast Pacific Ocean – cementing allies, funding infrastructure projects, conducting concerted person-to-person diplomacy.

But this week Beijing upped the tempo.