U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, meets with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Singapore, Oct. 18, 2018.
SCMP: China, US defence chiefs meet on sidelines of Asean meeting in Singapore
Wei Fenghe and James Mattis have ‘straightforward and candid’ discussion, commit to ‘finding time’ for further negotiations.
China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe held talks with his US counterpart James Mattis at a key regional security summit on Thursday, after a meeting between the two men scheduled for earlier in the month was cancelled due to growing tensions between the two countries.
The officials talked for almost 90 minutes on the sidelines of the annual Association for Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) defence ministers’ meeting in Singapore, the main focus of which was the disputed South China Sea.
Randall Schriver, a US assistant secretary of defence for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, told reporters after the meeting that Mattis described the meeting as “straightforward and candid” and that he had made clear Washington’s views on China’s increased militarisation of the strategic waterway.
“That’s an area where we will continue to have differences and talk through,” Schriver said.
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