Beijing: Vice President Joe Biden today delivered a blunt message to China that the US will not recognise its unilaterally-declared air defence zone over disputed islands in the East China Sea and efforts to enforce it could lead to a crisis.
On a mission to defuse tensions over China's air defence zone, Biden held a five and half hour meeting with President Xi Jinping with whom he struck a rapport during their prolonged informal meetings last year.
Biden had a “back and forth” conversation with Xi on the Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) and a host of other bilateral issues, a US official said at a media briefing here.
They spoke about the ADIZ and about the broader regional issues that are implicated in that in the East China Sea and in the South China Sea, the official said.
“The Vice President laid out our position in detail. He indicated, as we've said, that we don't recognise the zone, that we have deep concerns about it,” he said.
