"According to the consensus reached by the two heads of state, China and the US have agreed to resume high-level military communication on the basis of equality and respect," he said. That includes the China-US Defense Policy Coordination T...
A readout from the US Department of Defense said that the two sides discussed US-China defense relations, and the US side highlighted the importance of maintaining open lines of military communication in order to prevent competi...
In August General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and General Fang Fenghui,until recentlythe Chief of the PLA’s Joint Staff Department,signed a frameworkto establish a communication mechanism between their staffs. Both China and the United States framed the agreement ...
Communication between the two militaries broke off in 2021, as U.S.-China tensions ratcheted up over widening differences on issues such as Taiwan's sovereignty, the origin of COVID-19 and economic issues. Beijing has ignored U.S. requests to engage ...
Blinken highlighted recent steps taken by China to advance counternarcotics cooperation and enhance military-to-military communication to prevent conflict. He reiterated the US commitment to safeguarding interests and values, including human rights, and stressed the priority of resolving cases of American...
of Contemporary Int'l Relations, said, "Military ties have been troubled by a bottleneck. This involves a strange cycle of friction, a freeze in communication, limited improvement and then frictions again. It has made military relations increasingly dangerous. There is potential for tensions to ...
Beijing and Washington agreed to further roll out dialogues and collaboration involving areas such as the two nations' militaries, climate change and artificial intelligence, as senior Chinese and US officials wrapped up their two-day strategic communication in Beijing on Wednesday. ...
But this time, when China's civilian weather scientific research airship accidentally entered the US, it disregarded facts and China's friendly communication, took the chance for political manipulation and ill-intended hype, and accused China of using the balloon for "spying" purposes. ...
The direct talks between one of China's top military officers and his US counterpart on Thursday are widely seen as being a solid step toward concrete implementation of the consensus to resume thetwo militaries' communication and...
While foreign policy and economic officials have held talks, communication between military leaders has remained suspended since Beijing cut it in response to then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August last year. “I think there’s an opportunity and . . . as the...