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。”# u# [) b+ a" D- o: O1 m( ?
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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。 9 P4 [) S" d' l% p& Y( T" g% T% N* j. m, u
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。$ T$ e5 y7 [1 ?& F1 }! g
2 i# |- x( K8 i; n4 v7 \2 F 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 q9 m1 G. m, z* B9 a9 L7 n
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U.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible / X2 S+ h( R: s+ c' B : I: I9 s, U0 O( z5 r0 ~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.1 W+ ^) M5 Y3 c
( ?4 y0 A* v. KHowever, 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 f, W8 c0 G! f$ @4 S3 i( u 1 L x% X$ s! H. N4 F+ f“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.& E8 U$ v8 w2 H% r7 ]. K3 f
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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. % D) v$ o8 ~% z+ _( M' X& n( t+ N d; Y- j* n6 g$ P7 y
“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing. ' J) W" C9 T. ^1 [$ L9 G 6 o6 ]2 B1 l. }% OGen. 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.”# A3 w2 e" x' a) [/ {( N/ R
- a; }4 Y! e4 `+ 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.' \' `7 J4 B# ~
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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.6 }% X' p, z- h- m8 e3 M3 |
2 y7 y% E$ U& S5 t' mGen. 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.! i; ^* R" U5 {6 E, W4 }
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“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.% r( S; B P, o6 l" t! S6 B6 h2 A" S* V
# x# M8 x; _) d8 \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.4 e, g+ } P t6 N/ U$ z
9 S9 z8 V/ R, J+ Z1 VChina 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. & P7 N% m. `+ w$ Y+ A! W: ? i3 v/ I! E9 q
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.”9 E5 ?+ l: x- }
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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.% u& |; f( Y1 B! m/ M0 y
% k! l3 F% R6 y/ h) FThe 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.5 b5 C0 ?; Q( m& B
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( r. J5 P0 E( V ; m- k" b! f1 M0 eChairman 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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