The new trilateral security consultation could be linked to the Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline that will pass through Mongolia, as well as prepping for a trilateral summit in Beijing in October.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited China this week for meetings with senior officials and was told that any Western effort to transform China or encircle the country was "impossible."
President Biden this week referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a "dictator" for the way he responded to the U.S. Air Force's shooting down of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic in February.