U.S. military: looking for the right way to talk to the Chinese military

The U.S. Department of Defense said that it is still trying to find the appropriate way to talk to senior Chinese military.Earlier, officials of the Pentagon said that despite the many attempts, the Minister of Defense Lloyd Austin has not been able to talk to senior Chinese generals so far.

According to VOA, US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby was asked at a regular press conference for two consecutive days if Austin tried to talk to the Chinese military three times, but the other party did not answerTelephone.

At a press conference on Tuesday (May 25), Cerbon was asked the same question three times before and after, but was still unwilling to confirm directly.However, he hinted that the United States had not found the appropriate way to talk to senior Chinese military.

Kobe said, "Of course we hope to talk to the peer -peer officials in Beijing, and we are still working hard to confirm how to start."

It is also reported that Austin's call hopes that Xu Qiliang, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of China instead of Minister of Defense Wei Fenghe, was rejected by China by violating diplomatic etiquette.

In China's bureaucracy and command system, Xu Qiliang, vice chairman of the Military Commission, is considered to have greater power than Minister of Defense Wei Fenghe, and has greater influence on Chinese leaders.

In the US system, the literati leads the Ministry of Defense and is directly responsible for the president.

US defense experts said that the senior Chinese military officials of Austin should be Xu Qiliang rather than Wei Fenghe. Different bureaucratic systems of the two countries have affected the development of senior US -China military dialogue.

Since President Biden's work in January this year, the United States and China have not had a high -level military dialogue.Senior officials of the two governments have been held in Alaska in March this year in March this year.At the meeting, the two sides were tit -for -tat, and the atmosphere was unpleasant, and they did not obtain any substantial diplomatic breakthroughs.