PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The Chinese and U.S. defence ministers met for their second face-to-face talks this year on Tuesday, a U.S. official said, in a.
The meeting Tuesday follows a three-hour meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping last week on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia.
In June, a Chinese fighter aircraft dangerously intercepted an Australian military surveillance plane in the South China Sea region in May, Australia's defense department said.
The defence chiefs of China and the United States held face-to-face talks on Tuesday, a U.S. official said, their first meeting since a visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that enraged China. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met Chinese Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe on the sidelines of a gathering of their Southeast Asian counterparts in Cambodia.