"Experts say floating Chinese hospital helps win hearts and minds"
By Bill Bainbridge on Pacific Beat
Pacific Beat with Catherine Graue
ABC Radio Australia
18 July 2018
Originally published: http://www.abc.net.au/radio-australia/programs/pacificbeat/china-soft-diplomacy-ship/10006638
Audio of interview available: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/radioaustralia/radioaustralia/audio/201807/pba-2018-07-18-china-soft-diplomacy-ship.mp3
China's floating hospital known as the 'Peace Ark' has weighed anchor
from Port Moresby Harbour and set sail for Vanuatu and Fiji and Tonga,
before it then heads to South and Central America.
It spent just over a week docked in the Papua New Guinea capital, where it treated more than 4,000 people.
China says the humanitarian mission is about helping its friends and allies, but security analysts say it's also a way of winning hearts and minds in an increasingly contested Pacific.
It spent just over a week docked in the Papua New Guinea capital, where it treated more than 4,000 people.
China says the humanitarian mission is about helping its friends and allies, but security analysts say it's also a way of winning hearts and minds in an increasingly contested Pacific.
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