{"id":1929878,"date":"2023-05-12T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-zealand-pm-invited-to-bidens-pacific-summit-in-papua-new-guinea\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T14:13:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:13:58","slug":"new-zealand-pm-invited-to-bidens-pacific-summit-in-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-zealand-pm-invited-to-bidens-pacific-summit-in-papua-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ PM invited to Biden&#8217;s Pacific Summit in PNG."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-zealand-pm-invited-to-bidens-pacific-summit-in-papua-new-guinea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929878&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>New Zealand Prime Minister to Attend U.S.\u2013Pacific Summit<\/h2>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is set to attend President Joe Biden\u2019s summit with Pacific leaders later this month in Papua New Guinea. This will be Hipkins\u2019 first visit to the Pacific nation since becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-govt-lockdown-to-last-12-months-expect-repeated-vaccinations\/\" title=\"UK Govt: Lockdown to Last 12+ Months, Expect Repeated Vaccinations\">prime minister<\/a> in January. The leaders will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-zealand-pm-invited-to-bidens-pacific-summit-in-papua-new-guinea\/\" title=\"NZ PM invited to Biden's Pacific Summit in PNG.\">discuss critical challenges<\/a> such as climate change, maritime resource protection, and economic growth. Biden will become the first-ever sitting U.S. president to visit Papua New Guinea, as the United States increases its engagement in the Pacific region.<\/p>\n<h3>Strengthening Security Cooperation<\/h3>\n<p>In February, Papua New Guinea sent a delegation to Hawaii for security talks with U.S. officials. The State Department said they discussed the foundational framework of the U.S.\u2013Papua New Guinea Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) to establish a \u201cmutual understanding of core issues.\u201d When completed and signed, a U.S.\u2013Papua New Guinea DCA will be the foundational framework around which our two nations will enhance security cooperation and further strengthen our bilateral relationship, improve the capacity of the Papua New Guinea Defense Force and increase stability and security in the region.<\/p>\n<h3>Taiwan Urges New Zealand to Invest<\/h3>\n<p>Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has urged New Zealand to increase its investment in Pacific countries to help reduce their dependence on China. Wu warned of \u201cthe Chinese ambition\u201d in the Pacific region and said that Beijing wanted to sign a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dems-reject-measure-to-boost-israeli-security-aid\/\" title=\"House Dems Reject Measure To Boost Israeli Security Aid\">security agreement<\/a> with the Solomon Islands despite the island being geographically distant from China.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will attend President Joe Biden\u2019s summit with Pacific leaders in Papua New Guinea later this month.<\/li>\n<li>The leaders will discuss critical challenges such as climate change, maritime resource protection, and economic growth.<\/li>\n<li>Biden will become the first-ever sitting U.S. president to visit Papua New Guinea, as the United States increases its engagement in the Pacific region.<\/li>\n<li>Papua New Guinea and the United States are working on a Defense Cooperation Agreement to enhance security cooperation and strengthen their bilateral relationship.<\/li>\n<li>Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has urged New Zealand to increase its investment in Pacific countries to help reduce their dependence on China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Stay informed with the latest news on global politics and security.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will visit Papua New Guinea later this month to attend President Joe Biden\u2019s summit with Pacific leaders, his office said on Thursday. Hipkins will embark on his trip to Papua New Guinea on May 21, marking his first visit to the Pacific nation since becoming prime minister in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":1929879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[3706,8691,18160,26622,7778],"class_list":["post-1929878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-bidens","tag-invited","tag-pacific","tag-png","tag-summit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}