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Li and other senior officials also say they want signs from the U.S. of "mutual respect" - easing its patrolling and surveillance off China's coasts and an end to arms sales for Taiwan. Neither is about to happen. The tension predates Li's appointment, with Beijing's scrapping three avenues of military communication in August 2022 in protest of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. This scuppered planned talks between theatre-level commands, regular defence policy co-ordination and military maritime consultations, which included operational safety issues.

Amid intensifying military deployments across East Asia, high-level defence dialogue between China and the United States remains frozen. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not secure any progress on the issue during his visit to Beijing last week. U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin attempted talks with China's Defence Minister Li Shangfu during a defence conference in Singapore this month, but did not get beyond a handshake.

HONG KONG — Amid intensifying military deployments across East Asia, high-level defence dialogue between China and the United States remains frozen. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not secure any progress on the issue during his visit to Beijing last week. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin attempted talks with China's Defence Minister Li Shangfu during a defence conference in...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not secure any progress on the issue during his visit to Beijing last week. U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin attempted talks with China's Defence Minister Li Shangfu during a defence conference in Singapore this month, but did not get beyond a handshake.

Latest military tension dates back to August 2022 when former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan