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 ]/ o- A1 D7 s9 Q0 A' C
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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。 K( F" U4 `. P' z. E# _- T$ d1 t2 a$ O
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。 ! I0 E6 G. h' P( s: F3 w ! @) j8 d: v: ~8 I+ A: N 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。 ) G$ m% ?+ V6 k: x 1 Y+ e! \- `# X9 _$ k/ F$ zU.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible" C8 Y5 G8 S# } {: n4 E
( v8 z9 g# ]7 W" R1 V' ^( hBEIJING — 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. 7 D( l" p6 Q7 Y% n A2 S& n& R$ t& E0 j: v( t; v ^
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. ! Y+ c% G1 { Z0 S ) {4 c% ?6 Q3 ^, Q" @" e. ]8 ?“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.; y' R) P- O, U u) [4 d
3 T/ }8 a7 b {; t+ q* Y7 ~6 |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. # a; h% G0 X% v5 z* t# O( s 9 t1 i' w, E( s, [" K: c“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing.( }' C8 U1 P' n# n: i& @1 }
% Y' o/ x% A$ H3 [2 y& WGen. 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.”8 e6 N% g. J+ R( H6 z4 x! {# }3 G" E
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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.8 m- h2 Z2 @: T9 z- b' _
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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.3 F1 n5 k- }3 N V0 _4 X2 H
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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% K( I$ A* O" }
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“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. , X# K& m3 g, k% w/ K 3 O4 {( b' Z. C' D- }$ a$ ^+ KDeep 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. " @. {6 C6 f2 n y. w, D, w; w+ l5 Z- W' z0 G; ]0 ^
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. 5 u8 J. A7 P/ a; O' s5 w1 ]# d5 Q2 k6 ~) R5 r
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.” . R/ |. a6 T c; [) \. ~ n * c% x& w8 J# {* }' h& T$ S( 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 $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high.9 T B8 `! z4 o9 S* Y
) @: O1 F- N) s1 _+ J# u+ `, iThe spending boost and January's satellite test, in which China became only the third country to destroy an object in space by pulverizing one of its own unused satellites with a missile warhead, heightened the sense of unease in Washington over China's 2.3 million-member armed forces. + K# y* X/ Y4 b, t( v 2 p1 k: `" w' B+ k- m - ? i+ J4 x: g9 l" G$ x ) a1 `( C" `* v& V- C& a( r# @ u. u1 i
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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