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。” 0 A* ?/ ]. i+ X8 D; V1 x I6 O: e& `* r- w8 ]- C
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。 ( ~* x4 K9 V* C: F+ m" J4 f. [4 w3 I) J. h$ E! u
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。 / L( R+ Y+ O* }# D) p% p% m( `& _' I! c ) `8 O' f/ \% M5 k 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。: }2 a0 t7 ], X7 X3 t
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BEIJING — 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.. j$ p1 @+ j2 x! J
/ ]* D( L7 e6 |, mHowever, 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. # }- X& w3 h) p+ b" v X4 d* [! Y- f' s. e1 U$ u0 k
“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. 2 ]4 t. }% o7 a# ^; Z" C$ h 5 b( `- |( H3 J# m# wGen. 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.& w! q! ], y6 w( V
9 T" O& j, y) K8 O/ ]“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing.+ j0 I T1 u" o5 v, b' F3 Q; ^2 T
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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.” ' g$ e7 e; }, n! H, |3 |0 x 8 o/ q* Y" Z3 n; M7 ^& K3 B/ m- hMilitary 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. . j: X& F& t# m5 s0 y$ f! P1 C- p4 j9 }9 K
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. D' C, S) B8 M, Y% f3 s
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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. : P4 _/ h' S* T; | 7 d; {6 Q1 n6 T; Z“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. j2 M" }) g% i" \ # u% N( r! ^5 w" XDeep 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." B3 r0 [7 S. k4 P+ }0 c- B
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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.$ t1 l) p5 Z2 J4 n; 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.” ! a, E' J0 t& r6 r 0 a1 X: C- c- h; z% ^9 C( }3 DThe 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 $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high. 7 t# C- j' ^- R4 y: N2 Z. T$ {) W! l' x3 }4 w2 t5 C
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.6 G% a8 u- \- p/ y4 {
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Chairman 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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