Top US, Chinese national security figures hold 'candid' talks

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 14, 2022 2:24 pm

BEIJING: The top Chinese and US security advisers have held lengthy talks, with both sides describing them as 'candid' following days of acrimonious exchanges over Taiwan and other flashpoint issues.

Readouts of the meeting in Luxembourg on Monday were toned down compared with last week, when China's defense minister warned his country would not 'hesitate to start a war' over Taiwan, while the US defense secretary blasted Beijing's 'provocative, destabilizing' military activity.

Yang Jiechi (1st right), a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, meets with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (1st left) in Luxembourg, on June 13, 2022. (Xinhua/Ren Pengfei)

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