1 C# ~: W! [- Q1 k2 |# q) J 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。' R3 g- S; c4 Q: D$ [2 r) c
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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。 ' c2 v9 s9 k' ^: ]1 p+ d7 L " ?; Y$ e% l p" h$ x6 V+ W 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。5 R* L0 W- j3 ?* i P* F
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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.+ J$ i* P. {* `4 e+ }
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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.% y6 W' X8 C0 Q) t$ w0 k8 r
( @3 B1 N, a5 w; }0 D/ h“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. 2 |7 h% Q" k% E$ ^ 7 _, p; x. ~ _7 G; }# T- 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.3 S$ \7 k1 Q- G
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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.9 E, [9 W# o6 Y& g2 y
- i+ x4 s9 Z' B9 g" D: ^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.” / `. j5 s& Q$ G- W+ T4 I, f9 [5 j& c1 ]' I/ I
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 T) v2 K S l" J+ Z
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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. 3 M7 d, S; I1 p( _7 `. L) f# X, Y& R/ ^4 t, y
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. / S5 C' P/ f7 ^; [* s3 q- r) a! X, l6 k% `/ ]3 e- O1 N$ s$ t2 X F
“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.# q' [9 k* u: _" y8 @$ I9 }
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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.* c/ C, |2 Y5 F
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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. ; P: C8 I1 D p: m, ^$ o: s2 }# n& P$ v3 B3 D" I
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.” , N1 d! p' J+ u n5 J# _" t/ L3 J, i4 U; \4 w
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. . Y) C4 i) h2 a8 L 4 U0 i; D1 v" ^8 g4 H7 o( ~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 ~0 G6 Y, ^8 w# }
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; B/ b+ c2 |4 T& mChairman 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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