Washington:
Prime US navy officer Common Charles “CQ” Brown spoke with China’s Common Liu Zhenli on Thursday, a spokesperson stated, after a greater than year-long halt to high-level navy talks between the 2 international locations.
China stopped the talks to precise its displeasure over a go to by then-US Home speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in 2022, however leaders of the 2 international locations agreed to renew them once they met final month.
Brown — the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Employees — “mentioned the significance of working collectively to responsibly handle competitors, keep away from miscalculations, and keep open and direct strains of communication,” his spokesman Captain Jereal Dorsey stated in a press release.
He “reiterated the significance of the Individuals’s Liberation Military participating in substantive dialogue to cut back the chance of misunderstandings,” the assertion stated, referring to China’s navy.
The 2 leaders additionally “mentioned quite a lot of world and regional safety points” throughout their video teleconference, the assertion added.
Beijing reacted furiously to Pelosi’s August 2022 go to to Taiwan, scrapping cooperation with Washington on key points together with local weather change, anti-drug efforts and navy talks, and launching its largest-ever warfare video games across the island.
China claims Taiwan as its territory and has vowed to deliver the island beneath its management sooner or later, by pressure if obligatory, and bristles at any official contact between Taipei and overseas governments.
Taiwan lives beneath the fixed concern of a Chinese language invasion, and Beijing has stepped up its rhetoric and navy exercise lately.
US President Joe Biden met his Chinese language counterpart Xi Jinping in California in November for his or her first summit in a yr, at which they agreed to revive the military-to-military communications and ease tensions between the 2 sides.
Biden described the settlement to renew the talks — which Washington had repeatedly pushed for — as “critically necessary,” saying that “miscalculations on both facet could cause actual, actual bother with a rustic like China.”
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