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。” l7 ]8 a& s. C0 @; F( S, I
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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。' y. F& `( e( |) n
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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。2 Z* f3 Q t I4 v1 k! i& O
. \( P0 F1 a2 a' b) g; C2 { 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。/ I, U& X5 |( ?- {
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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. * q, y( @% n, j s0 @+ `# u# v' A G* W" v/ i( ]
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.( I' E3 s* F: D/ Q& r0 L' l
; b6 j" a- S* M: V ~! |# N“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.4 ]0 H" ~. ]8 F/ j
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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. * m+ ], u1 k( I9 N% ? ; Z! O8 W; e' P/ x8 e“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing., e2 a& I8 t8 k, @# F5 k. D$ G, B
; c5 W9 B* J% s6 m8 u+ y. aGen. 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.”4 s+ c+ r6 h. J
6 C% p$ K+ P f6 I/ P( QMilitary 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. - b. J' A- y" H 1 z- T/ N, [% p) v) \3 xDuring 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 h, E1 @3 x% m% i& Y4 h8 i8 m/ }: c$ t
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. + O& q% p1 J0 N! z6 J7 r / A! ^8 K8 @6 p8 D“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.( {, H f0 k* t, M& g
; a, y1 r: C$ g3 F5 P! a: a( wDeep 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. ) N3 D, k& e: F- a & z: e1 \4 |! b2 k% m" IChina 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. 6 w% ~) ]. u6 ^$ n: x, U5 a* _
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.”& O4 ]2 B! V: V
- h* R4 C J, VThe 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 $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high. , d7 b$ U) U) L9 V6 V. Q* ~2 f" E% _3 {4 U4 s0 [+ k& X& }
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.6 k8 o8 p/ }: ?9 ^/ o
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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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