(MENAFN) During the past months the Pentagon’s was trying to reach out to China’s army, but have been overlooked or refused, according to Ely Ratner, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “believes in the importance of open lines of communication with the PRC [People’s Republic of China] and we have sought to build out those open lines of communication. Unfortunately... we've had a lot of difficulty when we have proposed phone calls, meetings, dialogues,” Ratner claimed throughout a meeting on Thursday conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, plus the chief of United States Indo-Pacific Command Admiral, John Aquilino – and some other uniform dressed and citizens representative – have requested from Beijing for discussion, but “those requests [were] rejected or not answered,” he claimed.
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