Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is expected to hold his first in-person meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe, on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that starts this Friday.
The meeting will come amid soaring tensions between the US and China over Taiwan. Wei is expected to ask Austin to clarify US policy concerning the island after President Biden said the US would intervene in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
The White House quickly walked back Biden’s comments on Taiwan, which came during a high-profile visit to Japan, and insisted it did not mean a change in US policy.
A source close to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) told The South China Morning Post that besides Taiwan, the two military chiefs will likely discuss “Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, and other regional and global issues.”
The US and Chinese militaries are also at odds over the South China Sea. The US has rejected China’s claims to most of the waters and has ramped up air and sea patrols in the region, angering Beijing and increasing the chances of an accident between the two militaries.
The Austin-Wei meeting is a chance to reduce tensions between the two powers, but that is unlikely, as the Biden administration has made clear that it views Beijing as an adversary despite the robust trade relationship. The Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy identified China as the top “threat” facing the US military, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken has named Beijing the “most serious long-term challenge” to the US-led global order.
So affirmative action quota Lloyd J Austin the Turd will meet people who are light years ahead of him in IQ and history.
Please put this retarded affirmative actin quota back in the box and let adults conduct negotiations.
Tell me the difference between him and Mattis. Or Esper. Warmongering kiss a$$es who used to work for defense contractors.
p.s. Have you ever heard Lloyd J Austin the Turd speak?
I rest my case!
I expect this will be a replay of the meeting between Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The Chinese were openly offended by US behavior and said so very clearly.
The US is building this situation toward another war. The Chinese have given no slightest hint of backing down; quite the contrary they are pushing back hard.
Xi Jinping is apparently determined to test our abilities and I was years ahead of everyone else in predicting that Covid19 was a bioweapon leak, and that China was lying about supply chain issues and starting to hoard microchips to build bombs. Turns out I was right. War is coming. Joe Biden will not be one to avoid it. In fact he’ll probably try to start it soon since he’ll be voted out in 2024 and is in it for the profits.
The US Global Order?…Hmmm… So, if China represents a serious ‘threat’ to that established order, how far is the US prepared to go to maintain its claim and how far will the US go to eliminate that threat?…