US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin (left) and Chinese defence minister Wei Fenghe. - Agencies
BEIJING, May 30 (dpa): China on Tuesday rejected a call by the United States for a meeting of their defence ministers on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore later this week.
"The US is clear about the difficulties facing a China-US military dialogue," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said in Beijing.
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