Defense ministers of the United States and China are meeting
US and Chinese defense ministers will meet for the first time in Singapore. |
reported by Mehr News Agency, according to Anatolia news agency, US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun will meet in Singapore for the first time in the coming days.
According to this media report, the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) released a statement announcing the meeting between the defense minister of this country and his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the Shangri-La defense conference.
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This will be the first face-to-face meeting between Chinese Defense Minister Dong Zhuo and Austin since he was appointed to the post last year. The Shangri-La defense conference will be held in Singapore from May 31 to July 2.
The US Department of Defense also announced that Lloyd Austin, after attending the Singapore conference and meeting with his Chinese counterpart in order to expand defense relations and cooperation with our allies in the Indo-Pacific region, Cambodia will travel.
The last meeting of the defense ministers of the US and China took place in 2022 on the sidelines of the Shangri-La conference between Lloyd Austin and former Chinese defense minister Wen Fengyi in Singapore.