A senior Pentagon official talked with his Chinese counterpart for the first time since President Joe Biden took office. In the talk, the pentagon affirmed the U.S. vision for the Indo-Pacific region, while Beijing didn’t mention the region at all.
The Department of Defense (DoD) released the brief of the secure video conference between Dr. Michael Chase, deputy assistant secretary of defense for China, and Major General Huang Xueping, deputy director of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Office for International Military Cooperation on Aug. 19.
