It turns out, and they’ve been pretty explicit about it, that giving PNG the NRL team is to keep them out of military and security deals with China, and if they sign any deal like that, they lose the ...
The deal to establish a PNG team comes with a China “escape clause” for Australia that would let it terminate the deal without giving a reason until 2034.
Australia. Army. Royal Australian Survey Corps & Papua New Guinea. National Mapping Bureau. 1982, Aeronautical chart atlas, Papua New Guinea, series 1501 air scale 1: ...