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。”( O7 H8 X: c# c6 l+ r/ t4 h) _
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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。9 K. C( W2 U ~. G1 |, I6 U
9 g) l6 v Q( }* R% p 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。 - w3 ?+ {2 s# O7 z) u% n6 z; n: X& q! m. h% c9 H# C
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 p, v1 X3 K$ |
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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. 5 f n8 A% L/ h$ C* K + H$ S3 U$ z/ p5 D2 ^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. 9 J6 U$ y" L: M1 \: @- | _ k. L) g, Y- u: |! D: }. ?
“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 E# i# S+ k% }- i7 `6 _" j) d) I3 \
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.$ X0 m# _/ `; d+ J1 @
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“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing. 0 u. c5 F/ B: d3 I3 @+ F3 } L; `7 w" c; s' Z& k
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.”) E9 ~2 M+ L J. Z$ k5 u
. n* \. E1 S; x& e: X v1 p oMilitary 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. . y# M- V) k3 G9 T. |3 f. x1 k. d6 S/ q# x+ _& ]! i e. p* S7 B2 @
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; j! u; z3 p- T; [! v T% |4 z. T# F
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. ( J" L l0 o( { F8 M5 m0 n Q ) A9 d8 G9 c, z$ Q! m“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.( N" {# Z) t# }2 _! F" S, V2 A
: |; x: u$ Z0 M0 N( t+ d( I/ ?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.0 q5 r9 v$ L a/ `# B6 c( j" R
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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.% u2 W l* i$ Z+ J1 p% ^
' C$ r& M2 D# Z- o4 u& EAsked about the possibility of a conflict over Taiwan, he said: “I believe there are good faith efforts among all the leadership to prevent that.” s9 t0 w" x2 j- i# ~ 0 U+ |8 e% }* L; JThe 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 $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high. 6 k' G. G8 p; u: n* k6 z: ]% t- A" [# X$ m' u; k3 t- T3 P7 U+ t% \4 Q
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. # Z" j/ a0 ~/ y' G ) c$ b/ ?5 B9 R% [2 ] ' D- k# ~* \( V! M9 m6 G8 u8 R ! J" F- B5 X; R, H; ?2 a! ^1 R
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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