New York Post

@nypost

China’s Xi Jinping rebuffs Blinken bid to restart military hotline

https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/blinken-says-xi-refused-to-establish-pentagon-deconfliction-hotline/

Blinken told reporters after meeting with Xi in Beijing that he “repeatedly” raised the matter during his trip but that “at this moment, China does not agree to move forward.”

The Chinese government scrapped both the military-to-military line and some diplomatic talks last year in protest of a Taiwan trip by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Biden administration said reestablishing the linkup was one of Blinken’s top goals.

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1670819304890068993