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。”7 Y7 j3 A B" L0 ?
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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。 ! V6 V1 y/ f1 k5 \# |8 n! p1 ~ i, K O S& x6 s4 `
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。 ' L7 P* G( c" ^1 K/ F3 _, L9 }$ m- z, S" X
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。& _( {3 |) W* I( N6 Y$ b
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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. + p$ Y7 X; H0 C% C 7 [. C& W% p% w b5 @' P( L# gHowever, 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.+ g4 \' \' g D1 C' T2 C7 e
- \( S, y" k2 m% _% W9 m4 {“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. + }, ]4 y6 V/ n- m " @0 k9 p/ Y$ t* a0 sGen. 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. % b- E0 {. H. S4 K" s$ X+ H* r1 L% ?3 C% T
“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing.; m/ F) \% D! `9 m
- s* C& T: A5 P& A: x5 f9 t- |+ CGen. 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.”3 S) {# L2 E2 ~1 m+ f9 m$ [
$ X: x# E7 { Y; `5 CMilitary 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. 0 K! [" f. o4 x- O3 g, ^3 I3 D, ^" [
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., n! a1 R) f5 j- D
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6 S! e& u5 @( C# i% Z5 w“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.: f* T S- Z. o% Y1 [ R" N$ S
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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. " O) R- H1 K" c* _( V6 |# R# H- E, D+ s( u3 `9 I, h; f8 X. w3 g. N; }+ F
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. ) i% J5 A% h5 I, x1 ?' D ~ % s7 u0 I2 z. f+ ?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.” ) e% Q2 W) H+ l6 L4 G6 [$ Y" ]- J- |
The 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 $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high.5 ` r) x! B: {. }3 n& J. |8 G8 {
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The spending boost and January's satellite test, in which China became only the third country to destroy an object in space by pulverizing one of its own unused satellites with a missile warhead, heightened the sense of unease in Washington over China's 2.3 million-member armed forces.1 d$ ^: _& W8 \( t
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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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