Blinken will Xi Jinping: “Verbal war” before and after the resumption of high-level visits between China and the United States after five years // 布林肯会习近平:中美时隔五年恢复高层访问前后的“唇枪舌战”

June 21, 2023

But the five points of consensus reached by Blinken did not include the resumption of Sino-US military communication. Elbridge Colby, former deputy assistant secretary for defense for strategy and force development and founder of The Marathon Initiative, told the BBC that this was one of the indicators of the lack of tangible results in Blinken’s trip.” // 但布林肯此行所达成的五项共识中还是没有包括重启中美军方沟通。前美国国防部战略与军力发展副助理部长,“马拉松倡议”(The Marathon Initiative)创办人柯伯吉(Elbridge Colby)对BBC评论说,这正是说明布林肯此行缺乏实质成果的其中一项指标。


BBC News (Chinese)

Elbridge Colby is co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition.