US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has bandied with his Chinese counterpart, General Wei Fenghe, on the need to ameliorate extremity communication between the two major powers.
For the alternate time of time, both met face-to-face on Tuesday on the sidelines of an ASEAN defence ministers’ gathering in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
The meeting wasn’t anticipated to lead to major improvements but could touch on the significance of extremity communication and their opposing views on Taiwan said a US functionary.
This is their first meeting since the visit of Nancy Pelosi, US House Speaker, to Taiwan in August which maddened China.
This morning, I met with PRC Minister of National Defense General Wei Fenghe while attending the ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting. We discussed U.S.-PRC defense relations, as well as regional and global security issues. https://t.co/DwBsdkZE5s
— Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) November 22, 2022
Important step
before US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a three-hour meeting on the sidelines of the G20 peak in Indonesia, aimed at precluding simulated ties from discovering a new Cold War.
Despite the differences between both nations the countries’ military officers have long sought to maintain open lines of communication to alleviate the threat of implicit flare-ups.
After the June meeting, the Pentagon chief said his addresses with his Chinese counterpart were an important step in sweats to develop those means of communication.
The two largest husbandries have been intense political relationships over everything from Taiwan and mortal rights issues to Chinese military exertion in the South China Sea.
Pelosi’s Taiwan visit made China furious and saw it as a US attempt to intrude in its internal affairs.
China latterly launched military drills near the tone-ruled islet.
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