• 11/10/2024

China Rebuffs Pentagon Chief, Blunting Rapprochement Push

Wall Street Journal

China has rebuffed a U.S. request for a meeting of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu at a security forum in Singapore this coming weekend, the Pentagon said, showing the limits of a tentative rapprochement between the two powers.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-rebuffs-pentagon-chief-blunting-push-for-rapprochement-dd78d9bf