Dong Jun met US counterpart Pete Hegseth on the sidelines of a Southeast Asian regional defence summit in Malaysia a day after Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met in South Korea.

xKuala Lumpur: China and the United States should build "trust" in order to co-exist, Beijing's defence minister said on Friday, but cautioned Washington about its "words and deeds" on Taiwan. Dong Jun met US counterpart Pete Hegseth on the sidelines of a Southeast Asian regional defence summit in Malaysia a day after Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met in South Korea. Trump and Xi did not discuss Taiwan on Thursday, the US leader said, but Dong told Hegseth the "unification of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is an irresistible historical trend", according to a Chinese defence ministry readou

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