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.
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