A senior White House official on Tuesday warned of a "real and growing" risk of a military miscalculation between Washington and the Xi Jinping-led Chinese army.

What Happened: The U.S. National Security Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, Kurt Campbell, said President Joe Biden‘s administration is facing challenges in establishing effective means of crisis communication during "moments of unintended conflict or tension" as Team Xi remained "reluctant to engage in some of these mechanisms," reported SCMP.

Campbell’s comments came after the U.S.-China representatives hurled a series of accusations at each other at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual defense summit in Singapore. The accusations arose after Washington criticized China for “dangerous” actions involving an American warship during a joint exercise between the U.S. and Canada in the Taiwan Strait.