{"id":1970926,"date":"2023-07-12T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-official-and-chinese-ambassador-meet-in-first-defense-contact-since-november\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T19:09:08","slug":"pentagon-official-and-chinese-ambassador-meet-in-first-defense-contact-since-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-official-and-chinese-ambassador-meet-in-first-defense-contact-since-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon official and Chinese ambassador hold first defense meeting since November."},"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%2Fpentagon-official-and-chinese-ambassador-meet-in-first-defense-contact-since-november%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=1970926&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--><blockquote>\n<h2>Department of Defense Official Holds First Official Meeting with Chinese Government Representative<\/h2>\n<p>A top Department of Defense official met with a Chinese government representative on Wednesday in what was the first official meeting between the Pentagon and Beijing since November.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Dr. Ely Ratner spoke with Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng at the Pentagon, where they discussed &#8220;defense relations, as well as a range of international and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-israel-meet-to-discuss-iran-nuclear-deal\/\" title=\"U.S., Israel meet to discuss Iran Nuclear Deal\">regional security issues<\/a>,&#8221; Department of Defense spokesman Lt. Col. Martin Meiners said in a readout of the meeting. &#8220;Ratner also underscored the Department\u2019s commitment to <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 between the United States and the PRC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Chinese Ministry of National Defense Ignores U.S. Outreach Attempts<\/h3>\n<p>Top officials in the Chinese Ministry of National Defense have ignored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-finally-give-first-press-conference-after-avoiding-media-for-months\/\" title=\"Biden To Finally Give First Press Conference After Avoiding Media For Months\">outreach attempts<\/a> by their U.S. counterparts for months. The last time Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin officially met with his Chinese counterpart, Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu, was in November, though they shook hands and briefly spoke at the Shangri-La Summit in Singapore in early June.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. defense officials have warned repeatedly over the last couple of months that the silence from Chinese military leaders only increases the possibility of a miscommunication that could lead to a consequential escalation between the two global powers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve heard me say a number of times I think it&#8217;s important that countries with significant military capacity and capabilities have the means to talk to each other so that we can we can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lloyd-austin-confident-chinese-military-will-communicate-with-us-at-some-point\/\" title=\"Lloyd Austin believes Chinese military will eventually communicate with US.\">manage potential crises<\/a> and make sure that things aren&#8217;t allowed to unnecessarily spiraled out of control,&#8221; Austin said last month.<\/p>\n<p>The department has seen \u201ca steep rise in the region of PLA aerial intercepts in particular,\u201d over the last 18 months, Ratner explained at an event last month, which he described as \u201cmore assertive, aggressive, unprofessional, risky, [and] unsafe behavior by the PLA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, DOD released footage of an aerial intercept of a U.S. Air Force RC-135, forcing it to fly through the Chinese pilot&#8217;s turbulence wake while in another, a Chinese naval ship sailed in the way of U.S. and Canadian naval ships twice.<\/p>\n<p>In order to mend the relationship, Secretaries Antony Blinken and Janet Yellen have traveled to Beijing for meetings with their Chinese counterparts, while Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel there next week. Blinken said at the conclusion of his trip that Beijing declined to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-official-and-chinese-ambassador-meet-in-first-defense-contact-since-november\/\" title=\"Pentagon official and Chinese ambassador hold first defense meeting since November.\">restart direct communication<\/a> between the two country&#8217;s militaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-ranking Pentagon official held the first official meeting with a Chinese government representative since November. Dr. Ely Ratner, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, discussed defense matters with Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng at the Pentagon on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1970927,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1970926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1970926","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=1970926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}