A top Chinese military commander will visit US Indo-Pacific command in Hawaii next week as the two militaries step up engagement amid regional concerns about tensions over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
General Wu Yanan, the People’s Liberation Army Southern Theatre commander, will attend a defence conference hosted by Admiral Samuel Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific command, according to people familiar with the plans.
Wu’s attendance at the annual Indo-Pacific chiefs of defence conference marks an important step in reopening communications between the US and Chinese militaries. It will come a week after he and Paparo spoke in a video call that marked the first formal engagement between the two commands.