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。” $ j/ ]5 Y6 F, f- E0 g j+ F" K' o9 K1 }/ A) @8 U 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。3 B3 w. W% r" _# K* R. U) Z
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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。0 O$ [& {& s& {' F" S
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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。 4 C; V, t" E# b' R 2 A) c' h, I& g. `% g9 q6 JU.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible % v8 e( n( k" v- h5 X 2 b2 ~/ v% O) N8 [: }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.: z# z2 i- ^4 U$ b; U8 [! ?; h( d
' T1 S" F" l8 C& r SHowever, 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. 7 {* j5 h. O6 y $ A) Q4 @' J, h% M& G“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.8 j4 O4 E8 y; y9 Q5 A: }
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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.6 q1 H( Q- v+ c
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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. : N1 h: l4 `6 ?! C1 m " i; u$ a- Y- e3 [+ n% o 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.”& P# z ^) x( ^, D. \
- l9 V, Y1 V& M. X5 E& X" n+ C: U4 FMilitary 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. & H/ r3 m2 V' B. U9 r - m+ p! z; a3 d9 m+ fDuring 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. / a4 g% C( d) R. j7 P- \! @) r/ `, |2 m7 d3 K2 K. r, i
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.1 ~* F( v4 ]5 \- e0 `) |
; F' f6 W$ _2 G1 e9 G/ P1 R“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. ) K; a, I4 ^0 S' r6 s e% J: y4 \7 U) D7 pDeep 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. p$ ~3 B: V0 H, _! R' S2 t% l
0 M# d+ x: F! MChina 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.. d+ ^6 j9 P$ S% }
! V7 n! b6 s4 H. Q& ^( g1 KAsked about the possibility of a conflict over Taiwan, he said: “I believe there are good faith efforts among all the leadership to prevent that.” % \% d/ z2 `! c% t! w / y, a0 {+ C2 @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. ' q& {9 Y! p% ]% S5 X) V 5 I3 j r2 p& @3 MThe 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.& H. a7 N- H& H2 ]4 {
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" X, n' m7 S2 M+ ?* [1 DChairman 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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