Beijing: Defense officials from China and the US have held two days of talks in signs of small progress amid a sharp decline in connection.
Safe video conferencing held Tuesday and Wednesday led by Major Gen.
Huang Xueping, Deputy Directors of the Office of the People’s Liberation Army for International Military Cooperation, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Defense for China Michael Chase.
The Spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Defense Wu Qian on Thursday said the parties “exchanged in-depth views on the relationship between the two countries and two military and shared concerns.” However, he blamed “sustainable provocation and detention” from China by the US for “sufficient difficulties and challenges” between two military.
“Chinese sovereignty, dignity and core interests do not violate violations,” Wu said at a monthly briefing.
“Regarding the relationship between two armed forces, we welcome communication, accept cooperation, facing differences and opposing coercion.” In a statement released in Washington, a spokesman for the Defense Department Lieutenant Colonel Martin Meiners said the meeting was “an important component of the Sustainable effort of the Biden-Harris government to be responsible for managing competition between the US and PRC by maintaining open communication lines.” During the conversation, he said the two sides held “an honest, deep, and open discussion on various problems.” “Both parties reaffirmed the consensus to maintain open communication channels.
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also explain our commitment to enforce the principles along with our allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region,” he said.
Relations between China and the US face the worst tension in decades of trade, technology, human rights and Chinese military activities in the South China Sea, where Beijing has built airfields and other infrastructure on the man-made archipelago.
Military-to-military bonds have been marked by in-depth distrust, with the US accusing China lack of transparency because on a large scale increase the ability of PLA, the military wing of the Communist Party in power.
China has been angry by a naval ship that sends a ship to the screen close to the islands controlled in what Washington’s calls for navigation operations, along with US support for Taiwan.
President Joe Biden has maintained hard lines in China, but has been looking for better communication with Beijing.
Talks between Huang and Chase are believed to mark the first direct high-level contact between defense officials under the Biden government.
The talk also followed Wahyu that US military officers, General Mark Milley soldiers made a pair of calls to Chinese partners on October 30 and January 8 to convince him during the Trump administration.
Milley, chairman of the stock of stock, said on Tuesday he responded to “significant level of intelligence” that China was worried about US attacks.
He said that military-to-military communication as it was very important to prevent the war between the great powers that had nuclear weapons.
China hasn’t commented on the call.
Wu also reaffirms China’s opposition to the three-way strategic defense alliance announced by Australia, the United Kingdom and the US which includes building submarines driven by nuclear for Australia.
Beijing looked at the setting directed strongly to contain its development.
“China urged the three countries to leave their cold war mentality and the thought of zero-sum games, revoked the wrong decision to develop the cooperation of nuclear submarines,” Wu said.
China, US in talks about military relations in the midst of tense bonds
