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。”' h) P- U6 L3 `9 z9 r* k
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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。% P' g" R- V x$ Y1 P
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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。* w- M8 }* c: A
' h) r( H" C. H4 g6 U, T 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。 ; s1 {% l0 L, Z, t) F* ^ R : q$ M, I# v6 b) g4 cU.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible 7 a6 x7 X/ y$ {. o2 k. M6 H' a + v! V$ @/ J. _9 s- [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. : W- T1 s6 k6 b5 _2 {' |( p$ k% F. `$ N! `* y
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./ B% T9 o5 r, @- l( F
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“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. 7 L; ~6 V* X* M+ X9 Z- j( |1 t * B/ N) y9 [ T! O; U+ @- m$ U2 Z rGen. 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. 9 g1 e* c1 ^, j: x' K6 M3 j5 W) j9 v# y+ y! x& n
“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing.1 P4 @" i, v; j+ w" d
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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.” y6 `' e$ Z4 p* Y" n; y, b. e4 L. w* _" k# 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." v/ G# y( B4 ?
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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.4 z9 [# ~: \* U7 Q* |( i9 N7 j. g
2 M: G1 B/ s, B+ d/ W6 X6 GGen. 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. 0 ?1 k4 Z$ O: n2 l 6 n& q I; H5 R" \9 q2 Z: b4 l“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. - q8 D* v; e1 K4 | a" y$ u1 w6 v" M& C0 f' ]. `
Deep 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. 5 x8 C0 n$ b9 W* w% z$ t* E, Y* ]5 w8 {. h9 q( [
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. $ U" W" o. x r 9 x b4 P# z( L0 nAsked about the possibility of a conflict over Taiwan, he said: “I believe there are good faith efforts among all the leadership to prevent that.” % }% f( {# d& n/ ^; l c5 @4 B- A' X% X& PThe 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 $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high.( l% A9 m+ F) V j2 z0 n
+ M& }% [$ ~2 q6 p+ K: O) b: Y. WThe 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. ' h1 H. m5 S+ R$ i) i1 I+ V$ f; ~; w; i- V) D
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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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