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China scuppered it and all other military channels in 2022 after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, which China\u2019s government considers a rogue province and has threatened to take by force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MMCA is notable for two reasons this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, it\u2019s part of a larger effort for the U.S. and China to talk more often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American officials warned for more than a year that without speaking the two militaries would be more likely to accidentally end up in conflict. Those calls went unanswered until last November, when President Joe Biden met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping near San Francisco, where the two agreed to resume military talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those officially restarted in late December, when America\u2019s top military officer Gen. CQ Brown spoke to his Chinese counterpart. Weeks later, the two sides held another forum in Washington to discuss overall defense issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week, Biden and Xi spoke over the phone in what a senior administration official described as a \u201ccheck in.\u201d According to a White House readout, they discussed issues related to Taiwan and the South China Sea, where Chinese forces routinely harass personnel from other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previewing the call, the official said that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would \u201csoon\u201d speak with his Chinese counterpart, Minister of Defense Admiral Dong Jun, who took his post late last year after his predecessor was removed without explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, a forum focused on operational safety was surely fraught after two years of what the Pentagon called \u201cunsafe and unprofessional\u201d behavior from the Chinese military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last October, the Pentagon released images and videos of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/3560463\/us-accuses-china-of-conducting-centralized-concerted-campaign-of-harassment-of\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201creckless\u201d<\/a> intercepts by Chinese ships and planes. It said China had conducted 180 such intercepts \u2014 essentially steering too close to another ship or plane, like being cut off on the highway \u2014 since 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those have stopped since last November, at least around U.S. forces. China\u2019s coast guard has harassed Filipino vessels around Second Thomas Shoal, a reef in the South China Sea where the Philippines have an outpost. 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The talks this week focused only on interactions between the two countries, but the defense official said that China\u2019s behavior toward allies will come up in future discussions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ll continue to press the PRC on those issues,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forum in Hawaii focused on how the two sides can operate safely nearby, after almost two years of &#8220;reckless&#8221; Chinese intercepts 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