| China, US to restart military dialogue in Feb. |
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| Tuesday,February 17,2009 Posted: 16:10 BJT(0810 GMT) |
| From:za Article type:Original |
The mainland and the US will resume their military talks with a defense policy dialogue in Beijing on Feb 27-28, both countries' officials have said.
The dialogue between the countries' senior military officers was postponed in November after the former George W. Bush administration announced in October to sell $6.5 billion worth of arms to Taiwan despite the mainland's protest.
The dialogue will be informal, Defense Ministry spokesman Hu Changming said yesterday.
The talks, a routine yearly meeting between Washington and Beijing since 1997, is likely to be hosted by a US deputy defense minister and a deputy chief of the mainland's army, military analysts said.
Japan's Kyodo News Agency quoted a US Defense Department official as having said over the weekend that David Sedney, US assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, will lead the US team at the talks. |
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