Lyle Goldstein, a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, said Dong’s comments helped to paint a positive picture ahead of the Xi-Trump summit, now expected to take place by April.
“There is clearly an understanding that Chinese military strategy could impact the ‘political and diplomatic agenda’, so that is encouraging and may imply that the Chinese high command is itself trying to send positive signals in advance of the Trump-Xi summit,” Goldstein said.
Recent events in both Taiwan and around the world may have convinced Beijing it has good control of the cross-strait situation and that current trends are favourable, according to Goldstein.
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