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Australia was aiming to finalise an agreement on the joint facility — to be built on Papua New Guinea’s Manus island — ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Port Moresby in November, Australia is planning to build a new naval base in Papua New Guinea, reports said Wednesday, in an apparent move to curb China’s influence in the …