US Secretary of Defense Austin on Tuesday (April 16) held a video conference call with the Chinese Minister of Defense Dong Jun. This is the first substantial talks conducted by the National Defense Minister of China and the United States in the past 18 months.
According to Agence France -Presse, Pat Ryder, a Pent Ryder spokesman, said in a statement that the two countries' defense ministers discussed the US -China defense relations and regional and global security issues in the call.
U.S. Defense Minister Austin, November 22, 2022, and then held talks with then Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Cambodia. It was also after the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Perosi in August of the same year.The long -term face -to -face talks were held.
In the Shangri -La dialogue held in Singapore in early June last year, Austin and then Chinese Defense Director Li Shangfu only shook hands and did not meet.
The meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China last December decided to appoint Dong Jun, the former naval commander Dong Jun as the Minister of Defense, and filled the position of defense ministers who were missing for two months due to Li Shangfu.
