U.S. Defense Secretary, Chinese Defense Minister Trade Warnings over TaiwanKristina Wong 13 Jun 2022
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe traded warnings surrounding Taiwan over the weekend even after a one-on-one meeting that was meant to reduce tensions.
The two men met Saturday, June 11, 2022, for the first time during the Biden administration at the annual security forum Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. The meeting lasted a little less than an hour, with most of it spent on Taiwan, according to an official Defense Department report.
Officials said they saw the lines of communications between Austin and Wei as “guardrails to keep both sides from veering off the road toward escalation.” An official anticipated “additional open military channels from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to his counterpart.”
Austin spelled out U.S. policy towards Taiwan — the U.S. acknowledges there is “one” China, but it does not support unilateral changes to the status quo between China and Taiwan and will maintain its commitment to providing Taiwan with support to resist a Chinese military invasion.
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