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。”/ d; `5 L& ]) g$ ]* q& E
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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。 + N& ?! w% ]1 t2 \5 e/ z/ C- f6 z9 a% p4 J1 h, m5 G9 h
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。 9 j" \" n, m/ X, X( ]- ` l1 | + ^" ]1 c. S( n# ~( | 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。 0 K2 L6 q% x1 g: X+ u$ s9 p- T0 L' M _6 S" c7 P6 R) a* ]1 Q/ C; M9 @1 XU.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible0 I2 [ t: }9 h/ V& D& x
% Y9 i) Z) K5 m. y% bBEIJING — 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. / `% _- D1 b V# G; |9 n4 g& ^- e( i# T! @# ?+ y, P( b
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./ r& K* U2 s- w5 V
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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. k* v* y+ u& J4 {# E8 ~. E! p/ w ; X% {/ }' E4 D8 w( l }, h6 Z3 P% ZGen. 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.& n: b" y* S$ p
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“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing.% Q' J0 G- D6 T
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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.” " q' l6 R4 Z6 J- Q; ?' j; U/ E. r* w7 R
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. # A5 e7 B# p# @& P9 D! I! r- c7 e( J4 G$ {3 Z
During 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. 7 X; \! m3 V7 ?) _! _, p' d4 m. y' Y$ D
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. & k) |& y6 y, b* R- ?" y0 F. A- s3 y
“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.; T! H$ h3 ^# D0 @
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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.* T2 W6 W; V; s* _5 @' M
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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. $ @! q F! c( Z8 l$ i+ k6 L8 k2 r6 W. ?$ O: B2 o
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.” : M/ g2 i0 x8 ^1 j9 y ' U! |5 M4 O/ L9 G. a, mThe 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 F; S# f/ v) k! n4 t
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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. 2 X7 G; ]& S" y1 Y & r- W% {' a9 L. C9 w4 k( }& r3 {# Z5 S4 Y0 d0 k
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( L; e# y0 {1 h6 g' lChairman 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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