President Barack Obama allegedly declined to meet with Gen. Fan Changlong, vice chairman of the Chinese regime’s Central Military Commission (CMC).
For nearly two decades, the CMC vice chairman has met with the U.S. president while traveling to the United States. The recent move ends that pattern, and comes amid rising tensions between the United States and the Chinese regime.
Fan began his trip on June 15, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) confirmed a test of a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile. The test was allegedly in response to the United States holding freedom of navigation exercises to challenge the CCP’s land-grab in the South China Sea.
According to the South China Morning Post, Fan is “at the forefront of talks over territorial claims in the South China Sea,” and is one of CCP leader Xi Jinping’s right-hand men.
