2-day US-China military talks

, the Pentagon announced that following the previous agreement between the United States and China to resume military relations, the officials of the two countries completed their two-day military talks in Washington.

According to this report, US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed last year on the resumption of military relations. Relations that were severed by Beijing following the visit of then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in August 2022.

Pentagon added in a statement. : In the 17th round of military negotiations, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China, Taiwan and Mongolia Michael Chase met with General Song Yanchao, Deputy Director of the Office of the Chinese Central Military Commission for International Military Cooperation.

This statement states: The two sides discussed the defense relations between them and Chase stressed the importance of keeping the military communication lines open in order to prevent the competition between the two countries from turning into a conflict. And the conflict emphasized.

Pentagon officials stated that communications between the two countries’ militaries is a key factor in preventing miscalculations and turning to war.

These negotiations were held while the two countries discussed various strategic issues, such as China’s sovereignty claim over Taiwan and Beijing’s opposition to the island’s independence, as well as sovereignty claims. China has tensions with each other in the South China Sea. In February of last year, the flight of a Chinese spy balloon over American soil and the downing of this balloon by the United States increased the tension between the two countries, but with the consultation of various officials of both countries and the meeting of the presidents of the two sides on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco. In November, the tension between them decreased a little.

Last month, General Charles Q. Brown, the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, had a virtual meeting with his Chinese counterpart. He had held in this regard.

The Ministry of Defense of China also mentioned in a statement referring to this virtual meeting that China seeks to expand healthy military relations. and is stable with the United States based on equality and respect.

According to this statement, Beijing asks Washington to reduce its military development and Provocative actions in the South China Sea, as well as to stop supporting certain countries that carry out such actions. But he did not name these countries.

This statement states that the United States should fully understand the root causes of holding naval exercises by China and the issues understand air security and avoid increasing tensions.

Beijing always asks all countries to respect the principle of one China and refrain from creating tension in this region. At present, one of the biggest challenges between China and America in the South China Sea is over the issue of Taiwan independence. .

China always claims that Taiwan should be under the sovereignty of this country, and for the past three years, it has tried to subjugate Taiwan by carrying out military operations near this island, but the government of Taiwan has always declared that it has independent sovereignty. And the people of this country must decide for their own destiny.

Meanwhile, Beijing Washington, as Taiwan’s largest arms supplier, has repeatedly asked Washington to refrain from selling and sending weapons to the island in order to reduce Fimabin tensions.

At the same time, Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections on January 13 It will be held in 2024, while China has always considered this island as part of China’s motherland and has always declared its opposition to its independence.

Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that the country plans to sanction five American military companies for selling weapons to Taiwan.

However, the US State Department last month agreed to sell $300 million in military equipment to Taiwan to help maintain the country’s tactical intelligence systems .

Chinese President: The world wants stability in relations between Beijing and Washington

Xi Jin In response to a letter from a native of Iowa State, Chinese President Ping said that the future of the world requires peace and stability in relations between Beijing and Washington.

Accordingly, Sarah Lundy and Xi Jinping for the first time They first met when Xi was 31 years old and headed a delegation from China’s northern Hebei province to Iowa, Hebei’s adopted sister state, to produce American food. In 2012, they met again in Muscatine, Iowa, and last reunited in November 2023 in San Francisco. During this meeting, Lundy invited Xi to a dinner party.

In his previous letter to Lundy in 2022, Xi addressed him And old friends in Iowa said to continue planting the seeds of friendship and create new divisions for friendship between the people of the two countries.

While that bilateral relations between the two countries have been strained in recent years and China’s image in America has been distorted.

In early 2020 The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China stated in a tweet that the origin of the corona virus may be from the United States, and then it reached Wuhan through the games of world armies, and then it was detected in this city for the first time.

The results of a survey last year by the Pew Research Center showed that 83 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of China. The participants in this survey considered China to be the biggest economic and security threat to America.

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