PNG’s Closure of Taiwan Trade Office Signals Expanded Economic Ties with China

PNG closing of Taiwan office is linked to Chinese investment: expert

Papua New Guinea\'s (PNG) closing of its Taiwan representative office is to \"curry favor with the [People\'s Republic of China (PRC)] and the goal is vast sums of Chinese money,\" Jonah Bock, assistant director for research at the Alliance Futures Initiative, a Washington-based think tank, said in an i

PNG’s closure of Taiwan trade office signals expanded economic ties with China

Experts said the move was diplomatically confusing, but that PNG could expect vast sums of Chinese money.

China lobbies Cook to fight Taiwan’s Perth office proposal

Premier Roger Cook has revealed Chinese diplomats have repeatedly expressed concerns to him about a Taiwanese proposal to establish a new trade office in Western Australia.

Tension between China and Taiwan

The relations between China and Taiwan are constantly tense since their de facto separation in 1949 and are causing tension in relations between Beijing and Washington. On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing. The nationalist forces of the Chinese Kuomintang party under Chiang Kai-shek abandoned […]