U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, meets with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Singapore, Oct. 18, 2018.
SCMP: China, US defence chiefs meet on sidelines of Asean meeting in Singapore
Wei Fenghe and James Mattis have ‘straightforward and candid’ discussion, commit to ‘finding time’ for further negotiations.
China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe held talks with his US counterpart James Mattis at a key regional security summit on Thursday, after a meeting between the two men scheduled for earlier in the month was cancelled due to growing tensions between the two countries.
The officials talked for almost 90 minutes on the sidelines of the annual Association for Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) defence ministers’ meeting in Singapore, the main focus of which was the disputed South China Sea.
Randall Schriver, a US assistant secretary of defence for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, told reporters after the meeting that Mattis described the meeting as “straightforward and candid” and that he had made clear Washington’s views on China’s increased militarisation of the strategic waterway.
“That’s an area where we will continue to have differences and talk through,” Schriver said.
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4 comments:
Given the growing manufacturing revival in the United States due entirely to abundance on American natural gas and Trump's economic policy on regulations,taxes and tariffs a new President will be taking a big chance on getting cozy with the Chinese again. But some of the leading Dems are very ideological so they may try. I'm looking at Kamela Harris and Sanders for example. Booker is too much an opportunist to do much damage to this new China policy.
I think this reorientation of the world's economies will take a few years. I think there is now more opportunity for Americans to make goods formerly imported than before Trump was elected.
Assuming the dimz are not put back into power. If that happens, all bets are off and I would expect to see a chill overtake the economy.
I presume that meeting was all fun and smiles /s.
Words of deep wisdom:
IF YOU CAN NOT DUMP ON PAST DEMOCRATIC LEADERS, THEN DUMP ON FUTURE ONES
implied above: all will be just fine if we never ever have Democrats in power. What, after all, have they given us?
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