Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said the head of the US Indo-Pacific Command, John Aquilino, had a rare meeting with Chinese officials recently. This has been reported DEA News.
“I would like to point out that Admiral Aquilino, head of the Indo-Pacific Command, recently met with representatives of the People’s Republic of China,” a Pentagon spokesperson said.
He stressed that the meeting was held as part of the military conference in Fiji in mid-August.
Ryder added that from the American perspective, there are no barriers to contacts between US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart, who refused to meet under US sanctions.
Before that, Liu Pengyu, the representative of the Chinese Embassy in Washington declarationHe said that the PRC strongly opposes the US providing military supplies to Taiwan and urges the country not to provoke tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
A previously unnamed Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman cited US support for the administration in Taipei and its willingness to incite Taiwan against China as the main cause of tension in the Taiwan Strait.
Previously on US intelligence frightened embedded Chinese software.