Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Says Biden Insulted His Country When He Talked About Cannibal Islanders

American President Joe Biden insulted Papua New Guinea when he branded the country cannibalism in a speech by suggesting that his uncle who disappeared there during the Second World War may have been eaten by cannibals, said James Marape, the Prime Minister of the Pacific island nation, according to the MTI report. .

Joe Biden recounted a story during a visit to the Pennsylvania Memorial for American Soldiers Missing in World War II that

Uncle Bosie’s plane was shot down in New Guinea, but his body was never found because “there were a lot of cannibals in that part of New Guinea at the time.”

As we wrote earlier, the biggest problem with Biden’s story is not even the fact that it suggests that cannibals ate white people from any kind of sky (as experts have pointed out, cannibal tribes did indeed live on the island, but they only ate human flesh within a strict ritual framework ), but that, according to American military records, Lieutenant Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr.’s plane crashed due to engine failure, and moreover, not on the island, but in the Pacific Ocean, which is why his body was never found. So there is no trace in the official reports that “Uncle Bosie” was a victim of cannibals.

Marape stressed that Papua New Guinea “does not deserve to be stigmatized in this way” and also took the opportunity to call on Biden to take action to clean up the remnants of World War II in the Pacific archipelago, that his uncle, “Ambrose Finnegan and the true circumstances of the disappearance of other American soldiers can be clarified”.

Biden’s comments came at a particularly bad time for the United States, which is otherwise trying to establish friendly relations with the Oceania region.

Papua New Guinea is a strategic ally of the United States to counter China’s influence in the region. Last year, Washington signed a defense cooperation agreement with the island nation, while Beijing signed a security pact with the nearby Solomon Islands.

On Sunday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Ji held talks with the Prime Minister in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, in order to build closer economic relations.