.SecDef Lloyd Austin warns about 'increasingly dangerous behavior' of Chinese military
The two defense leaders spoke for roughly 90 minutes for the first time since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Taiwan in what became a major source of friction between the two adversarial countries. The relationship between China and the United States has continued to fissure from disagreements on issues, including Taiwan, alleged human rights abuses toward minorities in China, and China's continued military expansion and aggression in the region.
A senior U.S. defense official told Reuters that the two leaders had a “lengthy” conversation about Taiwan and about restarting the mechanisms that the Chinese had canceled after Pelosi’s visit in the coming months. Austin raised concerns about the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine and the North Korean military’s frequent missile tests and called on China to enforce United Nations Security Council resolutions fully regarding the latter subject.
"Secretary Austin discussed Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine and underscored how both the United States and the PRC oppose the use of nuclear weapons or threats to use them. Secretary Austin also expressed concerns about recent provocations from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and called on the PRC to fully enforce existing U.N. Security Council resolutions regarding the DPRK’s unlawful weapons programs.
"President Biden raised concerns about PRC practices in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, and human rights more broadly," the White House said at the time."He raised U.S. objections to the PRC’s coercive and increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan, which undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and in the broader region and jeopardize global prosperity."
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