Bonanza at sea awaits island nation By KARL WILSON in Sydney | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-01 10:31
Collaboration with Chinese firm seen as boosting PNG as seafood exporter
After the government of Papua New Guinea signed a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese fishing company late last year to build a seafood processing plant on an island in the Torres Strait, it attracted criticism in Australia about regional security risks and depletion of fishery resources.
However, analysts largely dismiss the fears as unwarranted, saying that critics ignore the economic benefits the project will bring to PNG, including jobs for local people.
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China: Xi Jinping delivered a speech to government and business leaders at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda conference this week, calling for greater co-operation to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and rising inequality. Echoing his previous address to the forum in 2017, Xi presented himself as a committed liberal multilateralist and warned of the risks of an ideological Cold War.