Beijing – The United States told the Congress delegation on Monday at a meeting with the Chinese Defense Secretary in Beijing that the United States wants to improve military relations to military with China, an American deputy leading a delegation of two parties in Congress on Monday at a meeting with the Chinese Defense Secretary in Beijing.
This visit is the first from the House of Representatives to China since 2019, and it comes with the high tensions between the two countries on trade, technology and conflicting opinions on global conflicts. He visited a group of US Senate Beijing in 2023.
The current delegation is led by Representative Adam Smith, a democracy in the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives. The group met with Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun, separately, with Deputy Prime Minister Loveng, after that Talks with Prime Minister Lee Qiang Sunday.
“We want to open the best communication lines between the two countries in general, especially between our defense (structures),” Smith told Dong before their meeting.
He added that he believed that both China and the United States wanted to support global peace and security, which made it important for the two sides to maintain open lines.
He added: “We have differences, without a question, but I think it makes it more important to have open discussions on how to solve these differences.”
“It shows a good stage in strengthening Chinese American communications”, which “is the right thing to do.”
The United States and China Military contacts have been suspended For more than a year starting from August 2022, after the House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, visited Taiwan. The visit was angered by Beijing, which is called Taiwan, which is self -defined as its own lands, to be included by force if necessary.
Both sides Restore the military dialogue In November 2023, after a rare meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden at the time.
President Donald Trump He said that he will meet Xi at a regional summit taking place at the end of October in South Korea and will visit China in the “first part of next year”, after a lengthy phone call between the two on Friday.
The Congress delegation also includes Michael Bumgartner, a Republican member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, as well as Roy Khanna and Crisi Huhelhan, both Democrats in the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives. Located in China until Thursday.