The US Department of Defense said that Minister Austin would talk to senior Chinese military officials at an appropriate time, and emphasized that senior national defense officials such as Austin were vice chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, not Minister of Defense.
According to VOA, the Pentagon spokesman John Korby responded the above response when answering questions from reporters at the regular press conference.
According to the information of the Ministry of National Defense of China and the Ministry of National Defense, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China is the highest unified organization of China's armed forces, responsible for the highest military decision -making and military command of the party and the country.Xi Jinping is the chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Xu Qiliang and Zhang Youxia serve as vice chairman; Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe is a member of the committee, and the level is lower than Xu Qiliang and Zhang Youxia.
The US Minister of Defense is one of the core cabinet members of the president, and the chairman of the joint meeting of the U.S. Chiefs of Staff is responsible for Minister of Defense and President.U.S. defense experts believe that senior Chinese military officials of Austin should be Xu Qiliang, not Wei Fenghe.
The British Financial Times disclosed in May that Xu Qiliang rejected Austin's dialogue three times.After the Chinese official media, the Global Times quoted Chinese experts that China issued a friendly signal that the two countries would hope to call the two countries while taking office, but the United States has not responded and instead proposed to meet with the military commission leaders.Customer, neither professional nor friendly.
