John Aquilino, commander of the U.S. Indo -Pacific Command and General of the Navy, said the Chinese military ignored or rejected the United States to issue invitations to participate in the conference.Shangfu attended the annual National Defense Minister of Defense in Fiji next month, but was ignored or rejected by the Chinese side.
Aquilino said: "We have issued an invitation, but we did not hear (reply) ... My request was either answered or rejected." He said that his request was that he couldTalk directly with your own Chinese.
Aquilino said that the defense ministers held in Fiji this August this August will be held in an offline form.I attended a meeting through online ways.
In recent months, China has repeatedly rejected the United States' request to propose exchanges between the two countries, including rejection of the China -US Defense Minister of Defense in the Shangri -La dialogue held in Singapore in June this year.ask.
Li Shangfu said at the Xianghui at the time that China had its own principles in communicating with the United States, hoping to communicate and cooperate on the basis of mutual respect."If we don't even have mutual respect, then our communication will not be effective."
Bloomberg reported in June that China rejected the US exchange request because the United States has not lifted Li Li so far.Shangfu's sanctions.In September 2018, Li Shangfu, the Minister of Equipment Development of the CPC Central Military Commission, was included in the sanctions list because Li Shangfu had participated in China to buy Su-35 fighters and S-400 air defense systems from Russia.China protested and negotiated.
