While Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was preparing to sit down with his Vanuatu counterpart, Jotham Napat, to negotiate the final form of the Nakamal agreement, a squad of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police officers was quietly having its deployment renewed in Port Vila.
As part of the agreement signed yesterday, Vanuatu agreed to prohibit any foreign military presence on its territory and ban the establishment of foreign military bases. Beijing, however, sidesteps such restrictions by deploying police rather than People’s Liberation Army (PLA) personnel.
The Chinese Embassy’s website announced a new rotation of Chinese “police experts” in Vanuatu on June 24 during a formal ceremony attended by Chinese 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….
CCP Renews Police Deployment in Vanuatu Ahead of Nakamal Agreement
