The PRC commented on the refusal to meet with the US Secretary of Defense during the security summit in Singapore.
The United States should lift sanctions against China’s top military leadership in order to resume high-level communications between the two countries’ defense ministries. This is what the press secretary of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, Liu Penyu, said, Bloomberg reports.
“The American side knows the reason for the difficulties in relations between the US military departments and China – it actually imposed unilateral sanctions against the PRC. Such obstacles must be removed before any exchange and cooperation with between the two countries,” he said. .
Thus, Liu commented on Beijing’s rejection of the US request for contacts between Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu at the Asian Security Summit, held in early June in Singapore.
The US imposed a second sanction on Li Shangfu in 2018 for his involvement in the acquisition of a company from a sanctioned major Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport, 10 Su-35 combat aircraft and equipment for the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system for the Chinese army.
It can be remembered that former US President Joe Biden called Xi Jinping a dictator when he spoke about his reaction to a Chinese reconnaissance balloon that was shot down over the United States.
In response, China called Biden’s words a violation of diplomatic protocol and an attack on the country’s political dignity.
Source: korrespondent
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