The US-China relationship
China
cancels meeting after US criticism of fighter jets
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin invited his Chinese counterpart Li Shangfu to a meeting during a defense summit in Singapore this week - but China canceled.
"Unfortunate", states Austin according to several media.
- You have heard me speak a number of times about the importance of countries with significant capacity being able to talk to each other so that we can deal with crises, he said on Thursday.
China canceled the meeting after the US accused a Chinese fighter pilot of "an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver" near a US surveillance aircraft over the South China Sea last week.
Zelenskyi in Moldova/destroyed residential buildings in Bachmut, eastern Ukraine. TT
EU summit in Moldova
Zelensky's demands on NATO: Security guarantees and "clear" message in Vilnius
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is asking for concrete security guarantees from the West during the EU summit in Moldova - both for his own country and for the host country.
Security guarantees are seen as a kind of long-term alliance with the American and European defense capabilities, in the absence of full NATO membership for Ukraine, something that is not considered possible during an ongoing war.
At the same time, Zelenskyy continues to push for quick membership in the defense alliance.
- We need a clear positive decision about NATO in Vilnius.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said that all countries agree that Ukraine should be allowed to join the alliance.
- It is not up to Moscow to veto an enlargement.
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