正在中国访问的美军参谋长联席会议主席彼得·佩斯23日在北京举行的新闻发布会上表示，他与中国军方领导商谈了建立美中军事热线一事。“希望通过军事热线，增加双方沟通的机会，减少误判，消除误解。” " b0 f, A+ }% u" I. d' x+ e; h* L4 M. W5 `% q4 d: C: u. l* H
佩斯是应中央军委委员、中国人民解放军总参谋长梁光烈的邀请，于22日开始对中国为期4天的正式访问。中央军委副主席郭伯雄，中央军委副主席、国务委员兼国防部长曹刚川22日分别会见了佩斯。梁光烈与佩斯举行了会谈。 + \# S9 [" x: o8 c4 i: `! }) U, H5 g. h+ E9 u# h! N
佩斯说，他们讨论了通过其他途径增进两军间的信任，比如，互相观摩军事演习，共同参加人道主义救援，增加军官交流等。0 |! u* |+ _( y) U
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佩斯一行是今年访华的第一个美国高级军事代表团，也是佩斯2005年就任美军参联会主席以来首次访华。1 n: H6 k. W: L
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8 b2 D$ i2 h* P+ I! rBEIJING — China's military is proposing officer exchanges and other confidence-building measures with the U.S. Army and may be inching closer to setting up a “hotline” for emergency communication with Washington, the top U.S. general said Friday./ X: T; D/ _4 f! `8 C3 F, ]; m
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However, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he received no new information in meetings with Chinese military chiefs about Beijing's test of an anti-satellite weapon in January that raised concern in Washington. He said he continued to press China's generals for more transparency about the aims of their military buildup. 4 h( W. T1 ^% N8 t 4 B( i& j5 m- q( R3 y5 |# _“I used the example of the anti-satellite test as how sometimes the international community can be confused, because it was a surprise that China did that, and it wasn't clear what their intent was,” Gen. Pace said. + K7 w2 N6 E1 F9 |+ R1 o- y" a! D. B8 n. D# s5 ^: h% r
Gen. Pace said he immediately agreed to study the proposals put forward Friday by Gen. Liang Guanglie, chief of the PLA's General Staff Department. Liang's move suggested a departure from the skepticism with which the highly secretive People's Liberation Army has long regarded co-operation with the U.S. military. 5 c+ a7 t- d. {, f. D/ R , x: l2 f3 R. A3 } S* b3 v1 m! L8 f“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing. / E; P' \, l5 B: _5 s, C8 |3 w" @' d V8 [. y1 }: O [$ T4 G
Gen. Liang's proposals included sending Chinese cadets to the Army academy at West Point as well as participating in joint exercises and humanitarian and relief-at-sea operations “that might be able to build trust and confidence amongst our forces.” 1 a" B5 u* F" j$ p* |4 r) z9 r3 l/ Y. C# s
Military exchanges were largely suspended following a collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese jet fighter over the South China Sea in 2001. The Chinese pilot was killed and the U.S. crew held captive after making an emergency landing at a Chinese air base. * y5 P$ U1 ~3 d" P. p i: W8 i! p% r* i/ U! X) _During that crisis, communication between the sides was spotty and at times non-existent, largely because Washington had no direct channel of communications with the Chinese leadership.7 P7 X4 L7 Q; l# v, v& N
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Gen. Pace said the sides agreed to keep discussing setting up a “hotline” between either military or civilian leaders that would help ease any future friction. ( e/ D/ S1 D1 d; R * h4 k8 {+ {+ p“The Chinese military understands as well as I do that the opportunity to pick up the phone and talk to somebody you know and smooth out misunderstandings quickly is a very important part of relations between two countries,” Gen. Pace said.2 p& f* `, Y+ o
6 M% c0 D; P9 v2 z: HDeep mistrust remains, however, particularly over Washington's close military ties with Japan and commitment to help ensure the defence of Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers its own territory and which it has threatened to use force to recover. $ N& b/ Y8 j# q" v, e# x N% g1 j, ]# E. J# R; h) D9 x
China has complained about U.S. plans to sell a batch of more than 400 missiles to Taiwan, but Gen. Pace said he had no details and didn't indicate whether the deal was mentioned in discussions./ B" N: X! ~- E# Q5 O: R
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Asked about the possibility of a conflict over Taiwan, he said: “I believe there are good faith efforts among all the leadership to prevent that.”. K' }0 p2 Z) ^" @7 ~7 _& N
9 l9 U( z: E) r7 e" Y# N% F6 GThe general didn't say how the Chinese officers responded to his calls for more transparency. China raised its military budget by 17.8 per cent this year to about $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high. ( p, H' O# T& k6 q' Q6 x6 t7 q: T- g# `3 _! N$ [
The spending boost and January's satellite test, in which China became only the third country to destroy an object in space by pulverizing one of its own unused satellites with a missile warhead, heightened the sense of unease in Washington over China's 2.3 million-member armed forces. ( o! e8 Z1 D) |' f2 U" ^' ]9 n* v! L" b# m) k# o. J) a; n: O
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0 L4 y7 d! `# F* p 5 z- D( H% b% w$ B! b5 f2 iChairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace inspects the guard of honor during a welcome ceremony at the Defence Ministry in Beijing March 22, 2007.
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