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.