It is impossible for China-US military ties to move forward according to the pace set by the US, under the circumstances that US completely disregards some basic requirements set forward by China regarding the latter’s core interests and major security concerns, Cao Yanzhong, a research fellow at the Academy of Military Sciences of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), told the Global Times in response to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s demand that China respond US demands for military dialogue. Cao added that the US military stance toward China is consistent with the US overall policy of containment in various fields, and this containment policy is even more evident in the military domain.
Cao said that the US military claimed that Chinese aircraft had conducted unprofessional interceptions, but the fact is that a US reconnaissance plane deliberately encroached into a Chinese training area in East China’s Shandong Province to carry out reconnaissance and interference. While the US emphasizes that its policy toward Taiwan has not changed and it still adheres to the one-China policy on one hand, it has been increasing its arms sales to Taiwan island on the other. “These actions indicate that the US has taken a series of increasingly aggressive actions concerning China’s most important and core interests and major security concerns,” Cao added.
