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BANGKOK — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers pushed for more military-to-military dialogue<\/a> in a meeting Sunday with China’s Premier Li Qiang, a rare congressional visit since the U.S.-China relations soured. <\/a><\/p>\n

The last trip by a group of senators<\/a> was in 2023, and Sunday’s delegation was the first from the House of Representatives to visit Beijing since 2019.<\/p>\n

Li welcomed the delegates led by Rep. Adam Smith and called it an \u201cicebreaking trip that will further the ties between the two countries.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important for our two countries to have more exchanges and cooperation, this is not only good for our two countries but also of great significance to the world,\u201d Li said.<\/p>\n

Smith, a Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said both sides were in agreement on the overarching aim of the visit. <\/p>\n

“Certainly, trade and economy is on the top of the list … (but also) we\u2019re very focused on our military-to-military conversations,\u201d he said in opening remarks. \u201cAs a member of the Armed Services Committee, I\u2019m deeply concerned that our two militaries don\u2019t communicate more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The delegation also included Michael Baumgartner, a Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as Ro Khanna and Chrissy Houlahan, both Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee. The lawmakers are in China until Thursday. <\/p>\n

U.S.-China relations have taken a downturn since President Donald Trump’s first term and have been hobbled by trade tensions, the status of the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, Beijing’s support for Russia and China’s vast claims in the disputed South China Sea. <\/p>\n

\u201cChina and the U.S. are the two most powerful and influential countries in the world, it\u2019s really important that we get along, and we find a way to peacefully coexist in the world,” Smith said. “I really welcome your remarks about wanting to build and strengthen that relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump<\/a> said he would meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a regional summit taking place at the end of October in South Korea and will visit China in the \u201cearly part of next year,\u201d following a lengthy phone call between the two on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGKOK — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers pushed for more military-to-military dialogue in a meeting Sunday with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[149188,3907,4179,8617,285,49,978,659,10673,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-441039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-149188","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-military-and-defense","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa","16":"tag-washington-news","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115242605224989864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}