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 Y9 L; q: ]% k3 b
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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。 3 {+ x9 @- Y9 @; {9 x4 b; T: r/ _, H) Q* @4 }5 ~9 [
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。* F T2 ^5 | _) z/ ~" a
# S) Z4 l" ~ R$ E, e& r& g 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。+ h( Z' H: T. I. z
. Y/ h, j+ z9 xU.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible ; S& m8 `3 p' L2 e # E& ^) z; v* i# GBEIJING — 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. # S: N7 O: L1 w* K# ^7 |" _ y$ u# J1 E8 C1 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., u ^% V5 z v7 U h4 W) R6 T
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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. / D; p! m/ q- r/ f3 n2 j7 n! \; G( ~ t9 B' w
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.4 q6 a2 ^) N: u% F0 Q
. l0 n+ Z1 D: p- i+ t9 T' E“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing. 5 m& I4 ^ Z- j7 l- { H I& s6 Q* u2 g8 g, Y( G; y
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.”. ?; L, M6 n+ S7 k- m% f3 `" u8 Q' m- H
4 Q8 b8 Q* }) w* eMilitary 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./ i" A! }5 q- V: z
2 p1 F* f Y0 g$ h: u3 ODuring 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. 2 g( _1 t& p* ~. x' o4 O+ }- Q1 n+ b% Z
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.' w Z' e( ?* ^* y# g
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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. : e# m* X$ c5 a( I! ^+ K2 h/ Y6 E; S
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. 8 C) d/ ^6 ~' M" g6 W! h& C/ k. |8 V
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 I/ ^6 x2 l; m3 Q: C! I# z( v2 i9 i1 i: k/ r) f7 c
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.”; S3 |" r3 i' \$ R
\# |) ^# Z2 M+ m( s" xThe 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 $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high.5 H3 }2 `% s( k. t% _: H5 r
1 b/ h9 I' e, V: c0 T$ l9 l2 @7 VThe 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.2 ^* B7 a! a! x3 r5 Z4 b2 Y, J
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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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