{"id":1942642,"date":"2023-06-02T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lloyd-austin-and-chinese-counterpart-speak-briefly-at-asia-security-summit\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:56:06","slug":"lloyd-austin-and-chinese-counterpart-speak-briefly-at-asia-security-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lloyd-austin-and-chinese-counterpart-speak-briefly-at-asia-security-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin and Chinese counterpart have brief talk at Asia security summit."},"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\">22<\/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%2Flloyd-austin-and-chinese-counterpart-speak-briefly-at-asia-security-summit%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=1942642&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>Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Meets Chinese Counterpart at Shangri-La Dialogue<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSecretary Austin and PRC Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu spoke briefly at tonight\u2019s opening dinner of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore,&#8221; Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said in a statement. &#8220;The two leaders shook hands, but did not have a substantive exchange,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The meeting between Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chinese Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore was brief and nonsubstantive. This comes as the Chinese government has been ignoring outreach from United States defense officials for months now, and declined a U.S. request for Austin and Li to meet at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the Department of Defense believes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/again-chinese-foreign-minister-berates-antony-blinken-at-g20-summit\/\" title=\"Again! Chinese Foreign Minister Berates Antony Blinken at G20 Summit\">maintaining open lines<\/a> of military-to-military communication with China and will continue to seek meaningful discussions at multiple levels to responsibly manage the relationship.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Over Chinese Aggression<\/h3>\n<p>The Pentagon views China as its &#8220;pacing challenge&#8221; and describes the People&#8217;s Liberation Army as the only power that has the intent and capability to reshape the international order in its favor. This comes as China has modernized and expanded its military, with officials expressing a willingness to take Taiwan, the independent island it considers a part of its country, by force.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Austin has expressed concerns that the silence from the Chinese could lead to an incident spiraling out of control. Late last week, a Chinese fighter pilot flew directly in front of the nose of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 over the South China Sea, forcing the aircraft to fly through its wake turbulence, which the United States Indo-Pacific Command described as \u201can unnecessarily aggressive maneuver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Working with Like-Minded Countries<\/h3>\n<p>Secretary Austin has emphasized the importance of countries with significant capabilities being able to talk to each other to manage crises and prevent things from spiraling out of control unnecessarily. The United States will continue to work with like-minded countries who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-panic-as-republicans-celebrate-mayoral-win-in-town-that-is-85-latino-were-in-big-trouble\/\" title=\"Democrats Panic As Republicans Celebrate Mayoral Win In Town That Is 85% Latino: \u2018We\u2019re In Big Trouble\u2019\">share common values<\/a> and goals to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>As U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan pointed out, China is on track to have as many as 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035, making it one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lloyd-austin-and-chinese-counterpart-speak-briefly-at-asia-security-summit\/\" title=\"Austin and Chinese counterpart have brief talk at Asia security summit.\">largest peacetime nuclear buildups<\/a> in history. It is crucial for the United States to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-calls-for-peace-and-stability-with-taiwan-in-meeting-with-ccp-counterpart-2\/\" title=\"Blinken Calls for \"Peace and Stability\" with Taiwan in Meeting with CCP Counterpart\">maintain open lines<\/a> of communication with China to responsibly manage the relationship and prevent any unnecessary escalation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had a brief conversation with China&#8217;s Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. The exchange was short and nonsubstantive, and comes after months of Chinese officials ignoring outreach from the United States. The Chinese government declined a U.S. request for Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1942643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[5208,9230,4117,21799,3646,7778,5852],"class_list":["post-1942642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-asia","tag-austin","tag-chinese","tag-counterpart","tag-security","tag-summit","tag-talk"],"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\/1942642","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}