WASHINGTON — Beijing has declined a US invitation for a meeting in Singapore between Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart Li Shangfu, the Pentagon said on Monday (May 29).
"Overnight, the PRC informed the US that they have declined our early May invitation for Secretary Austin to meet with PRC Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu in Singapore this week," Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder said in a statement, referring to the People's Republic of China.
A senior US defence official described the declined invitation as"just the latest in a litany of excuses", saying that since 2021, China has"declined or failed to respond to over a dozen requests from the Department of Defense for key leader engagements, multiple requests for standing dialogues, and nearly ten working-level engagements".
Mr Austin is due to travel to Singapore later this week to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue, a defence summit where he met Mr Li's predecessor Mr Wei Fenghe last June.
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