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。” % n6 {) `" Z; h F6 n5 `; @6 r/ x4 o$ Z9 ?
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。7 z; r8 }5 d% u, O1 Y3 k
$ j! g' R" S% |0 H/ q) E 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。 & V2 T0 v ? Z- D( }# b' q & g! R. o, h- O 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。7 r0 h1 y8 H1 e) }* Q( g; t. r
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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. ) {$ f' t) |+ M1 [- _% k7 A# G( O 6 W: L; r7 ~- J+ _& q; _$ c1 XHowever, 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. 0 c7 ~9 O8 P6 ~' X; X, K9 o4 s9 Q8 X/ c1 M5 T6 W
“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.6 i) {1 z5 X: a6 {; a; Y4 ?3 [8 [
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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. 7 j( O4 s9 K# L) u) x: R. m4 V5 ?3 W. r* a, e6 m; [. S) `8 b' }; o
“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing. 9 ?3 p1 w. y K6 W5 ~. h% [% C' v 9 I/ y6 S& F# V% g- f" JGen. 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.”) k5 g* o& A. q- T% T( J+ L
2 O, {* N6 Z* t9 T# {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.1 A2 B) V# x0 g* `6 o7 U" @1 w8 J4 a6 E
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. i, U X, t/ l6 P, G1 ]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. * D* r: y. p/ M8 b F7 U5 K ' t$ d% \' i3 M+ u9 p“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. 8 a, T, G" ^/ s& Z% @5 D5 `# v1 w& R/ R! E- T# ]* n2 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.( W% }5 i( n' |: j, S5 Y( _
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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. $ F* U" e% i/ K, V* D4 ?+ q* \4 B5 C3 e/ a: Y
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.” . [+ n2 x2 Y- j' _ m9 V' a2 C9 q 9 V& P* O3 g5 gThe 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 $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high. 3 p1 y6 p4 H4 N3 m$ z4 i9 a- |6 R( ?0 _5 p$ V6 m4 U3 C
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.1 \- N- a5 v( j7 @
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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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