Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu in Beijing on Tuesday, his first known visit to the capital city in four years.
Li said the country hopes to work with the U.S. for a healthy and stable relationship between the two nations and militaries. He added the U.S. should exercise sound strategic judgment of China, according to a readout of the defense ministry. “If history is of any guide, neither the U.S. or China can afford the price of treating each other as enemy,” Kissinger was cited as saying.
The meeting comes as China has frozen high-level military dialogue with the U.S. China has blocked Li talking from his American counterpart over sanctions imposed in 2018. Beijing maintains these curbs prevented a sit down between Li and U.S. defense secretary Lloyd Austin
