“We have always been committed to building stable, predictable and constructive China-US relations, and we hope that the United States will cooperate with China to implement the consensus between the two heads of state and develop healthy and stable relations between the two countries’ militaries. The two countries’ militaries,” Li said.
The head of the Chinese Ministry of Defense made the statement after several prominent American politicians visited China in recent weeks. The talks between US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in Beijing were aimed at easing foreign policy, economic and trade tensions between the two superpowers.
The current meeting between Li and Kissinger took place in a frosty atmosphere of high-level Sino-US military defense relations, while the East Asia region is witnessing increasingly intensive troop deployments and military incidents.
As Li put it, “Some people on the US side are unable to move in the same direction as on the Chinese side, and as a result Sino-US relations have reached their lowest levels since the establishment of diplomatic relations,” the Chinese ministry said. The Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
According to Kissinger, “The United States and China should eliminate misunderstandings, live peacefully side by side, and avoid confrontation. History and practice have consistently demonstrated that neither the United States nor China can treat the other as an adversary.”
The US State Department did not comment on Kissinger’s visit to Beijing, because it did not want to comment on “private visits by US citizens who are not members of the US government.”
Kissinger, who turns 100 years old this year, served as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor in the administrations of the late US Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and played a major role in normalizing political and diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing in the United States. The seventies.
