{"id":67223,"date":"2024-05-31T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T08:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/05\/31\/austin-meets-with-chinese-counterpart-for-first-time-since-2022\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:08:54","slug":"austin-meets-with-chinese-counterpart-for-first-time-since-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2024\/05\/31\/austin-meets-with-chinese-counterpart-for-first-time-since-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin meets with Chinese counterpart for first time since 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SINGAPORE \u2014 U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with his Chinese counterpart for the first time, ending an almost 18-month break since the two countries\u2019 top defense officials last spoke in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3792119\/readout-of-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iiis-meeting-with-peoples-republ\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to a Pentagon readout of the meeting,<\/a> Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Adm. Dong Jun discussed Chinese military activities around Taiwan, U.S. operations in the region, North Korea, and China\u2019s stance on Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior U.S. defense officials, briefing reporters after the conversation, said Austin also discussed China\u2019s \u201cstrategic capabilities\u201d in regard to space and cyberspace as well as nuclear weapons. In the last several years, Beijing has grown its nuclear arsenal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2023\/10\/19\/china-more-than-doubled-its-nuclear-arsenal-since-2020-pentagon-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than doubling the number of warheads since the start of the decade<\/a>, according to the Pentagon\u2019s analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top American officials have been warning China for months that continued support for Russia\u2019s defense industry \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;rct=j&#038;opi=89978449&#038;url=https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2024\/05\/21\/theyve-grown-back-how-russia-surprised-the-west-and-rebuilt-its-force\/&#038;ved=2ahUKEwiHj8zQqbeGAxU3-jgGHVwYJogQFnoECBEQAQ&#038;usg=AOvVaw14_-qRzD9a6tg0tUDObMGm\" target=\"_blank\"> one of the main reasons Moscow has been able to quickly reconstitute its military<\/a> \u2014 is unacceptable to Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That message appeared again in this meeting, one of the American officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe [Austin] said quite clearly that if China\u2019s support for Russia\u2019s defense sector continues, then the United States with our allies will have to take further measures,\u201d according to the official, who didn\u2019t explain what those consequences would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin and Dong spoke on the sidelines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/shangri-la-dialogue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shangri-La Dialogue<\/a>, a defense summit in Singapore that draws officials from across Asia. Austin has attended the event each year in his current role \u2014 except for a yearlong pause during the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 while the U.S. tries to work with more countries in the region, and do so more closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon\u2019s approach to the Indo-Pacific under the Biden administration has been defined by this kind of team building. The department has expanded defense agreements with Australia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and India, among other nations. It has also been able to convince existing allies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/shangri-la-dialogue\/2023\/06\/05\/south-korea-japan-bank-on-improved-ties-to-counter-north-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\">in particular Japan and South Korea<\/a>, to improve their cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s military activities in the region are partly driving these efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has repeatedly harassed Philippine vessels trying to resupply an outpost on the Second Thomas Shoal \u2014 a reef in the South China Sea that China claims ownership over, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscc.gov\/research\/south-china-sea-arbitration-ruling-what-happened-and-whats-next\" target=\"_blank\">despite a 2016 United Nations ruling stating otherwise<\/a>. China and the Philippines are among several nations asserting sovereignty over local geographic features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has also grown more aggressive around Taiwan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2024\/05\/30\/behind-the-scenes-of-the-pentagons-race-to-aid-in-taiwans-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\">running a large military exercise around the island weeks before the conference here<\/a>. China\u2019s government considers Taiwan a rogue province and has threatened to take it back by force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until late last year, China\u2019s military was conducting what the Pentagon called a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacom.mil\/Media\/News\/News-Article-View\/Article\/3569987\/unprofessional-intercept-of-us-b-52-over-south-china-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">series of \u201cunsafe and unprofessional\u201d intercepts of U.S. and allied forces<\/a>. That stopped late last year after President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will Austin\u2019s meeting make a difference?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin\u2019s meeting with Dong is meant to help improve what some in the region consider an overly tense relationship. Beijing severed military communication with the United States after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., visited Taiwan in 2022. Since Biden and Xi spoke, the two countries have restarted such talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin and Dong spoke over the phone in April \u2014 the first time they talked. Dong is China\u2019s third defense minister in as many years amid a purge of top military officials due to corruption in the People\u2019s Liberation Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year at the same conference, China\u2019s former defense minister declined an offer to meet with Austin, leading to a short handshake between the two. Even though communications have restarted, the lack of agreement between America and China overall often leaves little to talk about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI expect that very little will come out of it,\u201d Bonnie Glaser, an expert on Sino-U.S. relations at the German Marshall Fund, said of the Austin-Dong summit. \u201cI think it will be an exchange of talking points.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, Glaser noted it\u2019s good the two sides are engaging each other, a point echoed by the American officials traveling with Austin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Per the readout, Austin and Dong discussed restarting communication between their two countries\u2019 top military officers in the region \u2014 the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and China\u2019s eastern and southern theater commanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conversation also included mention of a Sino-U.S. \u201ccrisis-communications working group\u201d that would convene by the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A separate issue is candor, a second American official said, referencing China\u2019s space, nuclear and cyber capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s continuously been a challenge to engage on those issues,\u201d the official noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Austin and Dong will speak at the conference over the weekend, a symbol of the relationship defining Indo-Pacific security. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, the think tank that hosts the Shangri-La Dialogue, released<a href=\"https:\/\/iiss.sharepoint.com\/publications\/AsiaPacific%20Regional%20Security%20Assessment\/Forms\/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fpublications%2FAsiaPacific%20Regional%20Security%20Assessment%2FAsia%2DPacific%20Regional%20Security%20Assessment%202024%2F9%2E5%20Final%20files%2FASIA%2DPACIFIC%20REGIONAL%20SECURITY%20ASSESSMENT%202024%2Epdf&#038;parent=%2Fpublications%2FAsiaPacific%20Regional%20Security%20Assessment%2FAsia%2DPacific%20Regional%20Security%20Assessment%202024%2F9%2E5%20Final%20files&#038;p=true&#038;ga=1\" target=\"_blank\"> its annual report on the region ahead of the event<\/a>. In it, experts warned of a \u201cdraining decade\u201d marked by competition between the two superpowers that is spilling out beyond issues of security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To that end, conversations only have so much value, the first American official noted. 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