Posted on 12/02/2021 12:47:31 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
enior American and Chinese officials will meet virtually next month for much needed high-level talks between the two military powers, according to a report on Thursday.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said the Pentagon has been discussing a suitable format for the dialogue after a consensus was reached during November's summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
The Post said the talks would likely take place via secure telephone or a video conference, with dates in early January being considered. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will lead the meeting on the U.S. side.
According to the paper, the Defense Department will be hoping to connect Austin with Xu Qiliang and Wei Fenghe. The former is vice chair of the Central Military Commission headed by President Xi, and the latter is China's defense minister.
During the 3 1/2-hour Biden-Xi summit, both leaders agreed to maintain open lines of communication, with Biden warning that competition between the U.S. and China should not "veer into conflict." He has acknowledged that the rivalry carries inherent risks of an unintended military conflict.
The perennial issue of Taiwan, and especially increased U.S. support for its democratic government, is likely to be high on the agenda, as was the case during the Biden-Xi talks. Taipei is confident that longstanding American backing won't change, whatever happens next with U.S.-China relations. The Taiwanese leadership is also likely to be briefed before and after next month's planned dialogue.
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Waste of time to talk with commies. They will seek concessions while breaking every promise. An agreement with China isn’t worth the ink used to print it.
Communist China don’t even need to bother with spies anymore
TalyBiden and mutiny milley just give them what they want
in exchange for more rice in their rice bowl.
What isn’t Miley’s “promise to give advanced warning of any attack” to communist China’s leadership good enough them any longer?
“Waste of time to talk with commies.’
They’re both commies.
If Austin and Milley are running the show for the US, goodbye America.
That’s right about Chosin. The Chicomms just released a movie about that battle and how glorious the Chinese “victory” was. As the General once said, “Many more victories like and we’ll lose” or something similar.
Don’t forget that India handed the PLA its own @$$ on the border in hand to hand fighting a few months back. The PLA is a political army whose “leadership” positions are bought, with cash. They spend more time with propaganda than with training for war.
They will honor it just as they honored the purchase of $200 billion US goods and allowing Hong Kong to keep their system for 50 years.
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