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WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet his Chinese counterpart, the Pentagon announced Friday (May 24), after Beijing carried out war games around Taiwan in a sign to the US-backed democracy's new leader.
The Pentagon says the procedure is elective and minimally invasive, and “is not related to his cancer diagnosis."
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is slated to undergo a procedure on Friday, the Pentagon noted in a statement.