Key American and Chinese generals held their first talks in sixteen months. This is the result of the decision to restore military contacts.
In mid-November, the presidents of the US and China, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, agreed at a meeting in San Francisco, among other things, to launch a telephone hotline and to resume contacts between the militaries of both powers.
Communications between the US and Chinese militaries were cut off by Beijing following then-Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in 2022.
Resumption of contacts between armies
Taiwan was the topic of discussion among senior commanders. According to the Pentagon, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr. spoke via video conference with Chinese General Liu Zhenli. It was the first conversation between top military commanders from both powers after a serious diplomatic row over tensions over Taiwan’s status.
The US side said the topic of the discussions was developing a form of “responsible management of competition, avoiding misunderstandings and maintaining open and direct lines of communication”, as well as “global and regional security issues”. General Brown is also said to have encouraged the Chinese to open channels of communication between the US commander in the Indo-Pacific and his Middle Kingdom counterparts.
According to the report by the head of the Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral John Aquilino, since Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping in San Francisco, the Chinese military has virtually stopped intercepting US aircraft in the airspace over the South China Sea, while above Such incidents have occurred almost 200 times in the past two years.
A slight improvement in US-China relations?
As we said, in November this year it was decided to restore military contacts. Both the Americans and the Chinese (Biden, Xi and their delegations) also agreed that they needed to talk calmly more often about the most pressing issues on bilateral, global and regional issues. The White House writes in its statement that it is currently mainly about the war in Ukraine and the issue of relations with Iran.
It was also indicated that Washington and Beijing will compete responsibly so that, as the whole world expects, there will be no confrontation or a new “cold war.”
Source: Do Rzeczy

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