Row Over Taiwan Arms Sales Scuttles U.S.-Chinese Maritime Safety Talks

摘要

American and Chinese military officials have scuttled plans to hold the next major round of bilateral maritime safety talks this spring, according to U.S. Pacific Command.rnU.S. and Chinese officials agreed last December to hold the next plenary meeting under the 1998 bilateral Military Maritime Consultative Agreement (MMCA) in March or April of this year. But China subsequently suspended a range of military-to-military activities to protest the Pentagon's planned arms sales to Taiwan. And now PACOM is confirming the safety talks are a casualty of that row.