The high -profile Sino -US defense ministers ended, and the meeting lasted about 1 hour and 10 minutes, 10 minutes more than the original arrangement.
U.S. Defense Secretary Austin and China Defense Minister Dong Jun will meet at the Shangri -La Hotel, Singapore at 1 pm on Friday (May 31). The meeting was planned for one hour, and the actual meeting time was 10 minutes longer than scheduled.
Dong Jun left the venue around 2:10 pm.In the face of media inquiries, Dong Jun said, "Thank you for your attention, my colleagues will introduce the situation to you in a while."
Austin left the venue about five minutes later without responding to media inquiries.
This is the first time that Dong Jun became the Chinese Defense Minister in December last year.This is also the first substantial face -to -face dialogue after 18 months of defense.
