▲ Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu Photo: Yonhap News
While the United States continues to impose ‘economic sanctions on China’, the world’s attention is focused on China’s moves to improve relations with the United States.
China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee announced on the 24th that it would dismiss Defense Minister Li Shangfu.
Li Shangfu was subject to U.S. sanctions for illegally purchasing Russian weapons, but President Xi paid him no mind and appointed him as head of the Ministry of National Defense in March of this year.
Although the United States and China began talks in other areas such as diplomacy and economy in the middle of this year, former Director Lee was cited as the reason for the delay in the military area.
However, there is an interpretation that China’s sudden dismissal of Director Li was an indication of its intention to improve relations by removing one of the obstacles to the conflict between the United States and China.
In addition, on the 24th, the U.S. State Department announced that Wang Yi, Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will visit the United States from the 26th to the 28th.
In addition, President Xi also met with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who visited China on the 9th, and said, “China-US relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world,” and added, “There are 1,000 reasons to improve China-US relations, but the two countries “There is no reason to ruin the relationship,” he emphasized.
As China’s series of gestures to improve US-China relations continue, there is speculation that the US may also take corresponding measures, such as ‘lifting economic sanctions against China’.
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2023-10-24 14:50:01
