The US must lift sanctions against China if the Biden administration wants high-level communication between the Chinese and American armed forces, a Chinese diplomat said on Wednesday.
“The US side knows the reason for difficulties in its military-to-military relations with China—it actually imposed unilateral sanctions on China,” Liu Pengyu, the spokesman for China’s Embassy in Washington, said in a briefing on Wednesday. “Such obstacles should be removed before any exchange and cooperation could take place between the two countries.”
The Biden administration has sought to increase the number of communication channels with China ever since Beijing severed many of these links to protest then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last summer. The American side has repeatedly countered that meetings in a third country are allowed under the sanctions, while there has been some confusion about whether the US is considering lifting the sanctions—with President Joe Biden saying in Japan that it was, and State Department spokesman Matthew Miller saying it wasn’t.
Liu also criticized the US for sending warships and aircraft into the waters and skies around China as part of freedom of navigation and overflight operations. While the Pentagon has objected to Chinese tactics in two recent close encounters between US and Chinese vessels and aircraft as part of increase in “dangerous” behavior by the Chinese, Liu asserted that the American military was at fault.
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