Details of the meeting between the defense ministers of the United States and China
| The US and Chinese defense ministers will meet in Singapore for the first time in 18 months. |
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According to the announcement of this media, the expected meeting between US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun at the Shangri-La Defense Conference is the first direct and face-to-face conversation between the defense ministers of the countries. The mentioned will be in the last 18 months.
Shangari-La defense conference is an annual gathering of defense ministers from around the world, which starts this Friday (May 31); The conference will be held exactly one week after China held a military exercise around the island of Taiwan and warned of a war on this island.
The last meeting between the US and Chinese defense ministers took place in 2022 on the sidelines of the Shangri-La conference between Lloyd Austin and former Chinese defense minister Wen Fengyi in Singapore.
