{"id":1930165,"date":"2023-05-13T04:56:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T08:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-says-hes-had-no-contact-with-chinese-counterpart\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T04:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T08:57:47","slug":"austin-says-hes-had-no-contact-with-chinese-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-says-hes-had-no-contact-with-chinese-counterpart\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin denies contact with Chinese counterpart."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustin-says-hes-had-no-contact-with-chinese-counterpart%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>U.S. Defense Secretary Can&#8217;t Get in Touch with China&#8217;s New Defense Minister<\/h2>\n<h3>Why It Matters<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. and China are currently in a tense standoff in the South China Sea, with both countries shadowing each other&#8217;s warships. The Pentagon has identified China as the nation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-joe-biden-wont-embrace-arms-control-with-north-korea\/\" title=\"Why Joe Biden Won\u2019t Embrace Arms Control with North Korea\">top national security challenge<\/a>, and President Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leading-democrat-slams-biden-for-defense-budget-delay\/\" title=\"Leading Democrat Slams Biden for Defense Budget Delay\">defense budget request<\/a> is geared towards a potential conflict with China in the Western Pacific. However, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other officials have emphasized that war with China is not inevitable.<\/p>\n<h3>The Situation<\/h3>\n<p>Austin recently told a Senate panel that he has been unable to contact China&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-yet-to-call-israels-netanyahu\/\" title=\"Biden Has Yet To Call Israel\u2019s Netanyahu\">defense minister<\/a>, Gen. Li Shangfu, despite repeated attempts. Austin had previously met with Li&#8217;s predecessor, Gen. Wei Fenghe, but the Chinese government has refused to arrange a meeting between Austin and Li unless the U.S. lifts sanctions imposed on Li in 2018 over imports of Russian weapons.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Next<\/h3>\n<p>Austin emphasized the importance of maintaining communication between the U.S. and China, especially given the potential for conflict in contested waters. He stated that he will continue to work on establishing contact with Li, and hopes to have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-says-hes-had-no-contact-with-chinese-counterpart\/\" title=\"Austin denies contact with Chinese counterpart.\">defense ministers&#8217; phone numbers<\/a> on speed dial. However, the situation remains tense, with both countries engaged in military posturing in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been unable to contact China&#8217;s new defense minister, Gen. Li Shangfu, despite repeated attempts.<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese government has refused to arrange a meeting between Austin and Li unless the U.S. lifts sanctions imposed on Li in 2018 over imports of Russian weapons.<\/li>\n<li>Austin emphasized the importance of maintaining communication between the U.S. and China, especially given the potential for conflict in contested waters.<\/li>\n<li>The situation remains tense, with both countries engaged in military posturing in the South China Sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told a Senate panel on May 11 that he has had no contact with the Peoples Republic of China\u2019s (PRC) new defense minister despite repeated attempts to introduce himself. Austin told the Senate Appropriations Committee\u2019s Defense Subcommittee that he had several face-to-face sit-downs with former PRC Defense Minister Gen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1930166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[9230,4117,9750,21799,4775],"class_list":["post-1930165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-austin","tag-chinese","tag-contact","tag-counterpart","tag-denies"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}