(23 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beijing, China – 23 September 2025
1. Wide of news conference
2. Mid of reporters
3. Wide of briefing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Smith, Democratic member of House Armed Services Committee:
“It is dangerous for us not to be having regular communications about our capabilities and intentions so we understand each other, and so that miscalculations and misunderstandings don’t lead to larger problems.”
5. Reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Smith, Democratic member of House Armed Services Committee:
“You have to be willing to start the process of saying, ‘Okay, this is where I’m coming from, where are you coming from?’ And we’re not even at that point yet. We’re still sort of talking past each other.”
7. Mid of US Ambassador to China David Perdue and Democratic member of House Armed Services Committee Chrissy Houlahan
8. Mid of Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael Baumgartner and Democratic member of House Armed Services Committee Ro Khanna
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Smith, Democratic member of House Armed Services Committee:
“We want to get to the point where China understands that now they are such a large military, they need to have more conversations with the other large militaries in the world for basic de-confliction. I mean we’ve seen this with our ships and our planes, their ships, their planes, coming entirely too close to one another. We need to have a better conversation about deconflicting those things.”
10. Reporters
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Smith, Democratic member of House Armed Services Committee:
“Many things that seemed intractable and impossible — once you actually start talking from the standpoint of ‘Let’s try and resolve this’ — it is unbelievable what you can accomplish when you do that. I think that’s what China and the U.S. needs to do.”
12. Reporters
13. Wide of briefing
STORYLINE:
The United States and China are "talking past each other" on key issues, said a U.S. lawmaker leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to Beijing on Tuesday.
The visit, led by Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, is the first from the House of Representatives to China since 2019, and comes as tensions have risen between the two countries over trade, technology and opposing views on global conflicts.
The aim of the trip, Smith said, is to increase dialogue between the two sides.
“You have to be willing to start the process of saying, ‘Okay, this is where I’m coming from, where are you coming from?’ And we’re not even at that point yet. We’re still sort of talking past each other,” Smith said in Beijing on Tuesday.
Smith also said Tuesday he is concerned that the U.S. and Chinese militaries are coming too close to each other operationally, and that he wants the Chinese side to engage in more dialogue.
“We’ve seen this with our ships and our planes, their ships, their planes, coming entirely too close to one another,” he told reporters.
In October 2023, the U.S. military said that a Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet of an American bomber over the South China Sea.
Smith added he hoped for more engagement overall with Beijing.
“Many things that seemed intractable and impossible — once you actually start talking from the standpoint of ‘Let’s try and resolve this’ — it is unbelievable what you can accomplish,” he said.
China and the U.S. restored military dialogue in November 2023 after a rare meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-U.S. President Joe Biden.
AP video by Liu Zheng
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/915d4affd03b41e395324bf6afaacda6
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in September 28, 2025, 6:04 am.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
