Defence deal with PNG on cards with Biden’s historic visit

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Mr Biden’s stopover is yet to be confirmed by the White House but PNG’s leader James Marape announced on the weekend it would take place. Late on Wednesday, though, he issued a plea to commentators to stop making “unnecessary comments and innuendoes” about the visits. “Such visits are not easy to put together, as Papua New Guinea is not the only country in the Indo-Pacific region that they could have chosen to visit, especially at a time like this,” Mr Marape said on his Facebook page. “Let us not take such visits for granted. I appeal to all commentators on...