Beijing – An American deputy leading a delegation in Congress from both parties to Beijing on Tuesday said that the United States and China are talking about each other on the main issues.
The visit, led by Representative Adam Smith, is a democratic for the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives, the first from the House of Representatives to China since 2019, and comes with the high tensions between the two countries on trade, technology and opposition opinions on global conflicts.
Smith said that the goal of the trip is Increased dialogue between the two sides.
“You have to be ready to start the process of saying,” Well, this is where you came from, where did you come from? Smith said on Tuesday: “We are not even at this stage.
The American delegation said they hope that China will take significant measures to reduce the flow of fentanel to the United States and expressed concern about China’s restrictions on the global presentation of the rare land, according to a reading from the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives on Monday.
Smith also said on Tuesday that he was concerned that the American and Chinese armies are concerned Very close For each other from the operational point of view, and it wants to participate in the Chinese side in more dialogue.
He told reporters: “We have seen this with our ships and aircraft, their ships, and their aircraft, and are coming close to each other.” “At the height of the Cold War, we made regular talks, regular treaties with the Soviet Union.”
In October 2023, the US military said that a A Chinese fighter plane came 10 feet away From an American launcher over the South China Sea.
Smith added that he hoped to participate in more generally with Beijing.
He said: “Many things that seemed impossible and impossible – as soon as you start talking from the point of view,” Let’s try to solve this ” – it’s incredible what you can accomplish.”
The delegation met with Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun in a separately with the Deputy Prime Minister in Living on Monday after talking with Prime Minister Lee Qiang on Sunday.
The American and Chinese armies suspended contacts with each other for more than a year starting from August 2022, after the House of Representatives Speaker at the time, 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.
He visited a group of US Senate Beijing in 2023.
China and the United States regained the military dialogue in November 2023 after a rare meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden.
But it is not clear how clear the armies communicated with each other and Smith did not address the hesitation in response to the questions of the journalists on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump said he will meet with Shi at a regional summit in South Korea in late October and visit China in the “first part of next year”, after a lengthy phone call between the two on Friday.
The Congress delegation to China 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 of the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives. Located in China until Thursday.