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BumRushDaShow

(127,312 posts)
Tue May 30, 2023, 09:13 AM May 2023

China rejects U.S. request for a meeting of the defense chiefs

Source: NBC News

HONG KONG — China has declined a request from the United States for a meeting between the countries’ defense chiefs, the Pentagon said late Monday, as the world’s two largest economies struggle to mend ties.

The Pentagon had suggested a meeting between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual security forum being held in Singapore from June 2 to 4.

Washington has been seeking to restore high-level communications with Beijing as both sides signal a willingness to ease tensions stoked by clashes over Taiwan, a Chinese spy balloon and Russia’s war in Ukraine. But China has outlined limits to that conciliation over its issues with U.S. sanctions and what it sees as a broader effort to contain its rise.

“Overnight, the PRC informed the U.S. that they have declined our early May invitation,” the Pentagon said in a statement, using an abbreviation for China’s formal name, the People’s Republic of China. “The Department believes strongly in the importance of maintaining open lines of military-to-military communication between Washington and Beijing to ensure that competition does not veer into conflict.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-rejects-meeting-defense-chiefs-lloyd-austin-li-shangfu-rcna86732

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China rejects U.S. request for a meeting of the defense chiefs (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 2023 OP
The Pentagon Shadow Government: Competition...economic or political?...need not veer into Alexander Of Assyria May 2023 #1
And once again, MarineCombatEngineer May 2023 #2
 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
1. The Pentagon Shadow Government: Competition...economic or political?...need not veer into
Tue May 30, 2023, 10:22 AM
May 2023

conflict…war??

Of course not, Pentagon, so stop the military buildup and provocations in these lands so far far away from your area of influence…whatever influence means …military, economic, political??

MarineCombatEngineer

(12,092 posts)
2. And once again,
Tue May 30, 2023, 10:35 AM
May 2023

no mention of China's military build up in the S. China Sea, just criticism of the US.

Your agenda is pretty obvious.

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