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。”6 ~0 l, ?1 l1 R+ R
: @3 C" m! e: R- G 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。/ d2 `6 N$ y& m7 n$ Z9 L: @
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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。# {0 D2 p5 u# p* W# m% Y9 h
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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。 3 p2 s! [! X0 c; t& }3 r$ i' i/ l: w/ ^' E' `# E8 {
U.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible 8 x, x% J' k/ N+ Z8 i 1 V- c, ~4 u `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 L3 v9 a/ S0 |' n; }- v 9 S& ~( h5 D6 Y C7 i) AHowever, 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.3 Y/ ~# ]( D4 w" n) F/ J3 R
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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.0 K+ S! X4 U9 S2 G: W3 q# W0 e+ s
/ V: U# R+ `* u6 N5 h5 XGen. 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. 8 X# _. }6 x( M' D b- A . P' _: l- `: Q! g) n* |“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing. 8 D6 L# O# R( w. Y3 i: ]# J3 j" @' Q# Z9 w3 A# S7 G3 y! H
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.” $ p5 J, I" }; C& U2 h: [ - y" z: `: p& WMilitary 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.! V& g1 j! k$ M
7 H8 }1 B: [' P) E# pDuring 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. 4 T4 ?( S1 y* y" A8 z5 W! F/ c& `& ~3 L' I6 [
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. , l) h3 C) X. l: I# S 0 J, {5 W& g4 P! c“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. 7 J& w4 F8 b* N* ?9 J, \/ C3 L % x7 z9 [- W3 I/ ?+ W! A- `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. Y$ s% ^+ B ^0 t- C5 y; u. n$ U 4 O0 _5 j% F6 T7 Z/ NChina 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.4 {# Y; h- ?0 q* x5 j
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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.” G( C$ n7 I# l8 \ K
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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.! u0 V. i) ]" `
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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.0 ]0 O# s& d* \; R
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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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