The U.S. and Chinese defense ministers, Lloyd Austin and Li Shangfu, traded accusations at the Shangri-La Dialogue, undercutting efforts for a diplomatic thaw.
But recent military incidents in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait have made diplomatic progress difficult.between Chinese and American military aircraft over the South China Sea two weeks ago, a Chinese warship sailed across the path of the USS Chung-Hoon and Canada’s HMCS Montreal as the pair transited the Taiwan Strait on Saturday.The “unsafe” maneuver brought the Chinese vessel within 150 yards, forcing the American destroyer to slow to avoid collision, the U.S.
Such near misses are part of why the United States wants high-level dialogue with China to restart. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this week that the South China Sea incident underscored the importance ofChina’s reticence appears partially related to anger about a 2018 decision by the United States to sanction Li over Chinese military purchases from Russian arms dealers, despite State Department assurances that the measures should not prevent a meeting.
CIA Director William J. Burns has said, citing intelligence, that Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants his military fully prepared to invade the self-governing democracy of 23 million by 2027. But Burns has also underscored that this doesn’t mean an attack will come then.— have spurred fresh efforts to bolster Taiwanese defenses and enlist regional allies and partners in deterring China — all things Beijing fiercely opposes.
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