BEIJING: China and the United States will resume military consultations this month that were postponed last year when Washington announced a planned weapons sale to Taiwan, state press said Sunday.
The defence consultations will be held in Beijing on February 27-28, the People’s Daily reported on its website, citing an unnamed official with the US Department of Defence. “We want to continue exchanges with China and are seeking positive cooperative ties,” the official was quoted as saying.
The defence talks will resume only days after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes her first visit to China from February 20-22 as the top envoy of the new administration of US President Barack Obama, the report said. The talks will take place once a year and could include discussions on the fight against global terrorism, it said.
China called off high-level military exchanges last October after the Pentagon notified Congress that it planned to sell 6.5 billion dollars of military hardware to Taiwan.
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