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。”% ]. K# h0 y6 D+ e$ W' D
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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。 Z3 _, m, O' ^; R - y# c8 o* @& Q/ [( O0 m: k 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。 ; L- w/ {4 d$ T: E" \/ a* C$ F4 L9 K6 R' o, P
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。 ' }" ?8 x, U* e; w3 J+ E " H( Y4 X% u# G& _- L, SU.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible4 O! x6 g( Q, v* P6 h/ Y: }! F
( z) U1 k% j6 x1 t/ fBEIJING — 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.3 s$ }5 d& P3 Z. x; r
% C4 V$ h+ ~, s( c, J# YHowever, 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.6 X& p( c4 l% t; W& b) o
# Y. K5 ` }6 Q3 j1 Q0 _$ D( P, f3 t“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 t5 h6 ^# ]! a* ]" I/ V$ [( d
6 K" B' d9 ~+ g% p0 G4 i. r# 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.# T1 D1 D7 l+ c
. p" f1 j C+ v+ q/ X“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing.8 g/ S6 p& ~5 B& K- P8 z
' a. Z' A. h) ?0 _' T# 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.”; Y3 r7 l+ u+ q7 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 g+ @! m8 i/ M% t8 y
+ c8 j f; t7 L, Y3 {9 mDuring 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. ' R" E0 T( v& v; q( O; G: @# s, N2 x( R2 T) Q( H0 n
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.5 e f" J! p: G9 l: N- ^
+ z" Z- W) R. d& G: m% v“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. # \ @; ]" @( X5 g" g5 z7 _! G* ?4 ]% `& k' L3 N4 R% f
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.$ G" R7 s5 `+ {3 ?' {
* |- w* H) h4 U/ 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. 8 k: l$ U! k2 m" W1 s' R * f! K+ H; Z1 n0 r) TAsked about the possibility of a conflict over Taiwan, he said: “I believe there are good faith efforts among all the leadership to prevent that.” $ W2 a' [! V* {7 i: l* t* ?: W4 H. s 7 ?$ X' Y0 }% e6 N5 lThe 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.: L1 ^1 q* ?4 f. P
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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./ M1 z# v, J% V- p. @+ k
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: T) e3 q+ i" j5 b" s U9 z. sChairman 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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