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May 30 • 7 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
"#Beijing has declined a US invitation for a meeting in Singapore between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart Li Shangfu, the Pentagon said on Monday (May 29)." channelnewsasia.com/world/china-de…
"Overnight, the PRC informed the US that they have declined our early May invitation for Secretary Austin to meet with PRC Minister of National Defence Li Shangfu in Singapore this week," Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder said in a statement.
"The PRC's concerning unwillingness to engage in meaningful military-to-military discussions will not diminish (the Defence Department's) commitment to seeking open lines of communication with the People's Liberation Army," Ryder said.
A senior US defence official described the declined invitation as "just the latest in a litany of excuses", saying that since 2021, China has "declined or failed to respond to over a dozen requests from the Department of Defense for key leader engagements, ...
... multiple requests for standing dialogues, and nearly ten working-level engagements".
Austin is due to travel to Singapore later this week to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue, a defence summit where he met Li's predecessor Wei Fenghe last June.
Austin and other US officials have been working to shore up alliances and partnerships in Asia as part of efforts to counter increasingly assertive moves by Beijing, but there have also been tentative signs that the two sides were working to lower the temperature.

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By @LiYuan6: “A decade or so ago, #China was thriving and full of opportunities,” she said in a phone interview. “Now even if I want to strive for opportunities, I don’t know which direction I should turn to.” nytimes.com/2023/05/30/bus…
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“Youth unemployment in #China hit a record high in April, with 20.4% of 16- to 24-year-old jobseekers unable to find work. Xie is 26 and has not managed to find a job in China since leaving higher education.”

“It makes me really frustrated,” she says. theguardian.com/world/2023/jun…
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“#China’s leader Xi Jinping has called on his top national security officials to think about “worst case” scenarios and prepare for “stormy seas,” as the ruling Communist Party hardens efforts to counter any perceived internal and external threats.”

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“The complexity and difficulty of the national security issues we now face have increased significantly,” Xi said Tuesday at a meeting of the party’s National Security Commission, state news agency Xinhua reported.
“We must adhere to bottom-line thinking and worst-case-scenario thinking, and get ready to undergo the major tests of high winds and rough waves, and even perilous, stormy seas,” he added.
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"India and #China have ejected each other’s journalists in recent weeks, virtually wiping out mutual media access and deepening a rift between the world’s two most populous nations." wsj.com/articles/china…
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Amnesty International said it had spoken to Uyghur student Abuduwaili Abudureheman. Abudureheman told the group he had not entered #HongKong, a claim that was also disputed by his South Korean professor and the city’s government. hongkongfp.com/2023/05/30/amn…
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The Hong Kong government “strongly condemned” Amnesty’s statement last Saturday, with a government spokesperson saying that there was no record of the student entering Hong Kong, nor of him being denied entry into the city.
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“@bikhim said Tuesday that Ukraine’s success in defending itself against Russia’s invasion, with the help of the United States and other nations, is important for deterring China from trying to invade #Taiwan.”

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“I think pushing back on aggression is the key message that will help to deter any consideration or miscalculation that an invasion can be conducted unpunished, without costs, in a rapid way,” Ms. Hsiao told reporters.
“We must ensure that anyone contemplating the possibility of an invasion understands that, and that is why Ukraine’s success in defending against aggression is so important also for Taiwan.”
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