China cancels meeting with Pentagon leader

China would have canceled Sunday an annual security meeting with the Secretary of Defense James MattisThe results of James Norman Mattis in Macedonia show that the name change paves the way for NATO membership Mattis poisons the well on women in the fight A new, more flexible IT strategy has learned mistakes from the passed MORE in the midst of increased tensions between the two countries.

The New York Times reported that China had canceled the meeting, scheduled for mid-October in Beijing, as a senior army officer would not be available to meet Mattis. China had already presented the negotiations as a way to move forward in a sometimes icy relationship.

The Times reported that Vice President Pence is expected to deliver a speech this week, outlining Trump administration's concerns about China's behavior in recent years.

Both countries have opposed trade, military action and, more recently, presumed electoral interference.

A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Defense last week accused the United States of persistent military tensions, saying that "provocative" American military flights over the South China Sea were particularly worrying.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpKavanaugh polls: the FBI in the hot seat Kanye West criticizes the 13th amendment on Twitter Feinstein calls the White House, the FBI to release the scope of the Kavanaugh PLUS investigation Last month, additional duties of $ 200 billion were imposed on Chinese products, which intensified a trade dispute between Washington and Beijing. China has responded by tens of billions of dollars in tariffs on US goods, which has raised concerns about the trade war of the world's two largest economies.

Trump insisted that tariffs are needed to get an improved trade deal and to get China to open its markets.

Last week, Trump exacerbated tensions with China when he said at a meeting of the UN Security Council that China was ingesting it in the 2018 US elections to hurt the people. Republicans because his trade policy displeases him.

Although he did not mention any details, he then shared pictures of a section of the Monks' register that contained a four-page inset purchased by a government-backed Chinese media company. . The insert was aimed at Trump's trade policies in the state-producing corn and soybean.

Trump has decried tactics as "propaganda".

China rejected the allegation at the meeting in the United States, saying the country "did not have or intervene in the domestic affairs of a country."