U.S. National Security Council Coordinator For Asia Says China’s Military Crisis Strategy Needs A Rethink

Kurt Campbell says ‘I believe there is a general worry of miscalculation, and of incidents and accidents’ with China’s current strategy. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters 

The Guardian: Hotlines ‘ring out’: China’s military crisis strategy needs rethink, says Biden Asia chief 

Kurt Campbell says Beijing has been increasing military activities without taking measures to reduce the chance of miscalculation 

The Biden administration’s top Asia official has warned about the absence of a crisis-communications channel between the US and China at a time of rising military tensions over Taiwan and the South China Sea. 

Military and leadership hotlines have been established at various points in the fraught history of the relationship, but Kurt Campbell, the White House Asia “tsar” responsible for coordinating policy across the administration, said Beijing had shown no interest in using them, out of a preference for uncertainty. 

The hotline simply rings out in “empty rooms”, he said.  

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 .... “China has generally resisted any effective efforts at these kinds of confidence-building, crisis management procedures. In the past, the hotlines that have been set up have just rung, kind of endlessly in empty rooms. So the Chinese have chosen not to go in that direction.” 

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