This report looks at China’s infrastructure investments in Papua New Guinea as an area of growing strategic competition between China and the US, Australia, and other allies. The report follows the airport expansion work at Momote Airport under a sanctioned Chinese construction firm also connected with South China Sea work. The Momote case gives context to better understand the budding Ihu Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project where military and naval bases are planned that could possibly host Chinese military forces.
Read more of this report at Tearline.mil.
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