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。” 5 l- ~. {2 Z* Y, I4 j) C1 w( A5 z$ F5 h; F; A& @" X0 j
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。 2 ?4 m3 T( D5 k8 }7 H7 l8 E/ T$ W' L& E
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。 3 u9 `6 d" p* y - P3 W. W- C4 g6 B 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。 & R( q* T' ]7 o& Y + d' I$ r+ w9 O {$ [U.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible : u2 `& C3 M# U7 j, B1 B9 q) [: e' g# W5 e' A h6 `
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.& r$ A" v1 O u6 V9 {; M: H. U
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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.2 |) s$ [ b; F$ d
/ f- _6 {: D* Q4 y“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. ; @- @1 R: `1 h! \7 ]2 K - [$ `. M+ f# a, }$ J6 |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.5 d/ ~- }# f1 L' M
; i3 d+ `9 r% _; S, T8 z U. r, X“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing.6 K/ ~( u$ ]& u. ~, L) M9 M* Z9 L
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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.”8 j# s& A/ c5 u; @% s% } J
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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 A- t& m+ q6 y; U0 ] C . a. t3 c0 e3 ]) b: A" I. NDuring 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.: e" P; X- t$ ^+ I4 N' g
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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. 9 b; q7 O) {! ]& m! H' n5 J& m, _( B h" B! o0 C$ q, |: a
“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. I! ^3 p. c9 `' c; E+ I/ o4 {8 x* b
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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. 6 f7 }; f7 w2 H B# F. e& Q8 F `6 Y8 C0 V" H- a
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.8 {! |' f o6 b1 x
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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.”/ j! L+ u; z: u
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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. 6 w; U {6 u1 h# l; I I3 r- V* e3 ~8 F3 ^. e3 `
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.- _3 T2 k6 o& w* W
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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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