While Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was preparing to sit down with his Vanuatu counterpart, Jotham Napat, to negotiate the final parts of a new security deal, a squad of Chinese police were renewing their deployment in Port Vila.
As part of the agreement signed on June 29 in Canberra, Vanuatu agreed not to allow any foreign military presence on its territory.
Yet days earlier on June 24, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Embassy’s website announced a new rotation of “police experts” in Vanuatu during a formal ceremony attended by Ambassador Li Minggang, two embassy counsellors, and officials from Beijing’s Ministry of Public Security and the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department, which supplies the officers….
As Australia Sealed Its Security Deal With Vanuatu, the CCP Renewed Its Police Presence Locally
