Admiral Sam Paparo of the US Indo-Pacific Command and Wu Yanan of China's Southern Theater Command had a video call based on an agreement made by the US and Chinese leaders during last year's meeting in San Francisco.
The call followed a meeting in Beijing last month between US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese leader Xi Jinping's leading military adviser, at which the talks were agreed to.
Most two-way military contacts between the US and China were suspended for almost two years after Nancy Pelosi, then speaker of the US House of Representatives, visited China’s Taiwan in August 2022.